Short Writing Quotes (page 3)

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• life
• influence
• saying

It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from... Jhumpa Lahiri

• short
• time
• writing

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain

• short
• writing
• poke

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. George Murray

• short
• book
• writing

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. Elizabeth Moon

• short
• prayer
• thinking

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. Carol Ann Duffy

• short
• writing
• little

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 itself and should be concentrated. Roddy Doyle

• short
• writing
• play

I write short stories, and I wrote a play. Rita Dove

• time
• words
• writing

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel. Anne McCaffrey

• short
• writing
• text

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. Jenny Holzer

• literature
• consider
• thinking

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. Jennifer Weiner

• short
• joy
• wonder

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. Tobias Wolff

• choices
• my everything
• writing

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. Laura Hillenbrand

• short
• writing
• rejection

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. Caroline B. Cooney

• life
• best
• short

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. Cao Yu

• short
• wellness
• book

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. Tom T. Hall