Beautiful writing Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald Download Open image “Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beautiful writing Emotion Fiction writers Fiction writing Keys Knows May Needs Reading and writing Short story Short writing Stories Story writers Story writing Writing Writing short stories
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien 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
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything. — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human… — Lin Yutang 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
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 don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My emotions are my emotions. My pain is my pain. My story is my story. — A'ja Wilson 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
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other… — Tor Udall Copy Share Image
“Madoc was always calm, after all. So calm all the damn time growing up. He didn’t shout or show his anger until he’d had… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was the flutter… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped, like mountain peaks in the sky,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“In the morning light the land and trees and the surface of the river were the color of fresh blood.” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
