Features Quote by Gene Wolfe Download Open image “Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.” — Gene Wolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Features Short story Situation Solve Stories Two Writing
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out. — Robert Greenberg 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 something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story. — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best… — Peter Orner 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
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that they may… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton John's opening… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard… — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have. — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use.… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image