Insightful Quote by Edgar Allan Poe Download Open image “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.” — Edgar Allan Poe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insightful Mood Sentences Short Short story Stories Writing
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other… — Henry James 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
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. — Chuck Palahniuk 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
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances” — Santosh Avvannavar Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is,… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
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