Gaps Quote by Sara Sheridan Download Open image “For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.” — Sara Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gaps Intriguing Materials Novelists Stills Stories
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. — Rose Tremain 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
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
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
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult readers who… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for… — Ben Greenhalgh Copy Share Image
I honestly don't like Photoshop. I think when people Photoshop things, all of a sudden you're like, 'That's not even me anymore.' It takes… — Lily Aldridge Copy Share Image
It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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