Books Quote by Robert J. Sawyer Download Open image “A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.” — Robert J. Sawyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Short Short story Soup Story
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from… — Lynn Coady 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
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break… — Orson Scott Card 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
“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories tend to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth.… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
