Almost Quote by Jami Attenberg Download Open image “I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.” — Jami Attenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Almost Brain Find Like Palate Short Short stories Short story Stories
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer. — Henrik Ibsen 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
“I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was in the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around,… — Banks Copy Share Image
My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on,… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides. — Bill Luther Copy Share Image
I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of… — Farnaz Fassihi Copy Share Image
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
