Looks Quote by Mavis Gallant Download Open image “A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.” — Mavis Gallant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Look Window Looks Short Short story Stories Story Look Window Writer
“on short stories: something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.” — V.S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman 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
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
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from… — Emma Donoghue 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
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality… — John L'Heureux 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
I like stories where it feels like you're only seeing a small window of a bigger world. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five," said Walter's father, whom he admired,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?" Max inquired. "He's a warlock," said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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