“She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.” — Esi Edugyan 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
“I walked back past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no… — Chris Howard Copy Share Image
“Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.” — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott 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
“In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand… — Peter Carey 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
“My attitude. It’s what I fed off of as well. It’s what made people like me.” — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wondered if the angels talked to get me to behave or to entice the devil to come out to play.” — 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
“Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“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
“Most guys, Madoc, like something different. You know why you want to see me in “nice,” skimpy things? Because the more I… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“His eyes are a midnight moment filled with memories, the only windows into my world.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He looks up at her, and behind her, at the sky, which holds more stars than he ever has seen at one… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
“All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the… — John Burnside 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
