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> [Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/stories-should-be-natural-as-apples-brief-as-lust-long-as-a-thought/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

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## More by Leonard Michaels

> [“March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass, drums, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/march-6-1961-i-remembered-a-party-in-a-house-outside-of-ann-arbor/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/of-mystery-there-is-no-end-of-clarity-there-is-precious-little/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/stories-should-be-natural-as-apples-brief-as-lust-long-as-a-thought/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [“Something Evil I said, "Ikstein stands outside the door for a long time before he knocks. Did you suspect that? Did you suspect that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/something-evil-i-said-ikstein-stands-outside-the-door-for-a-long-time/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/some-animals-are-secretive-some-are-shy-a-cat-is-private/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/the-prose-as-such-has-to-be-singing-the-song-the-story-is-telling/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [“Answers I began two hundred hours of continuous reading in the twelve hours that remained before examinations. Melvin Bloom my roommate flipped the pages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/answers-i-began-two-hundred-hours-of-continuous-reading-in-the-twelve/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [Self-confidence can be crippling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/self-confidence-can-be-crippling/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/is-the-story-developing-an-attitude-or-victimized-by-it/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/there-s-hardly-anywhere-in-literature-where-you-don-t-find-a-triangle/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/there-is-always-something-for-which-there-is-no-accounting-take-for/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/adultery-is-not-about-sex-or-romance-ultimately-it-is-about-how/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [I can only gesture at what makes a story good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/i-can-only-gesture-at-what-makes-a-story-good/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/i-read-assiduously-i-kept-in-touch-with-my-species/)

[Leonard Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-michaels/)

> [“In 1982, Raphael Nachman, visiting lecturer in mathematics at the university in Cracow, declined the tour of Auschwitz, where his grandparents had died, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-michaels/in-1982-raphael-nachman-visiting-lecturer-in-mathematics-at-the/)

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