Books Quote by Christopher Bram Download Open image ““Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”” — Christopher Bram ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novels Short stories
“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.” — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.” — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a book of… — Michael Faudet Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay,… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
