Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
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And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? IRWIN SHAW It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life. SAVI SHARMA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them. ROBERT J. SAWYER A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a f... LORRIE MOORE When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do ... ANTHONY TROLLOPE I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. LYNN ABBEY People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t... SAVI SHARMA Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell... JEFF GILES She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything t... REBECCA MAKKAI The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not ne... DARIN STRAUSS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv... CARLOS GHOSN If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a s... BEN OKRI I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided b... ELIZABETH GEORGE One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of wr... CHANG-RAE LEE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collectio... OZWALD BOATENG Some people say a good measurement of a man is how many friends he has. Everywhere you go, everyone ... BILL HARRISON I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t... NANCY KRESS I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A good story has things that draw you in, like great management and great fundamentals, ... A good i... FRANK GANNON I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo... MALCOLM LOWRY Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. DAPHNE DU MAURIER Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. DAPHNE DU MAURIER What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for... KEVIN BARRY I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another. JULIE ORRINGER Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story. AARON STANFORD Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has f... HOWARD JACOBSON As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a ... ETHAN CANIN The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not res... NEIL GAIMAN I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family ... 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And the largest film... GARY SHERMAN I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c... GARY SHERMAN I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events t... GARY SHERMAN I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems ... GARY SHERMAN I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always... GARY SHEFFIELD In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives a... GARY SHEFFIELD I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. T... GARY SHEFFIELD I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't liv... GARY SHEFFIELD I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame.... GARY SHEFFIELD Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see ... GARY SHEFFIELD I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child ... GARY SHEFFIELD Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got ... GARY SHEFFIELD When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I... GARY SHEFFIELD When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a ... GARY SHEFFIELD Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because,... GARY SHEFFIELD If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that'... GARY SHEFFIELD I trust no one totally. GARY SHEFFIELD I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted th... GARY SHEFFIELD Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life. GARY SHEFFIELD The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They... GARY SHEFFIELD This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go... GARY SHEFFIELD There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids. GARY ROSS