Bursting Quote by V. S. Pritchett Download Open image “A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.” — V. S. Pritchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bursting Celebration Character Short story Stories
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering… — William H. Gass 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
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
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe 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
“Life is like a collection of short stories, full of twists and turns, and always striving towards a happy ending.” — Kathy Keroson Copy Share Image
“But it takes a certain boldness to stand up and tell a story of celebration. It takes courage to push aside the negative and write our own story of triumph—not just once, but again and again. Choosing this path of courage day after day leads to a life of wonder and beauty, joy and accomplishment—not only in telling our story… — Courtney Westlake Copy Share
“on short stories: something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.” — V.S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you,… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too… — Nate Saint Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot… — Bill Press Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
