Peter Short Stories

Famous quotes containing the words peter, short and/or stories:

    Ellie: By the way, what’s your name?
    Peter: What’s that?
    Ellie: Who are you?
    Peter: Who, me? I’m the whippoorwill that cries in the night. I’m the soft morning breeze that caresses your lovely face.
    Ellie: You’ve got a name, haven’t you?
    Peter: Yeah, I got a name. Peter Warne.
    Ellie: Peter Warne? I don’t like it.
    Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    A cheap price is a short cut to being cheated.
    Chinese proverb.

    All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.... For me “style” is matter.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)