For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“My attitude. It’s what I fed off of as well. It’s what made people like me.” — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.” — Julie Lessman Copy Share Image
“His eyes are a midnight moment filled with memories, the only windows into my world.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.” — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn’t love her, and she didn’t love me. I was infatuated with… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“I knew exactly how I felt about Madoc. And I knew why I felt that way. I hated him. I hated what… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
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“Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.” — Julie Lessman Copy Share Image
“I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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“The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
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“She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.” — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.” — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
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