About Quote by Ben Dolnick Download Open image “A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.” — Ben Dolnick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Collection Harder Sentences Short
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book. — Sal Khan 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 human a… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all:… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children's Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
