Short Story Mentioned

Famous quotes containing the words short story, short, story and/or mentioned:

“You can write anything you want to,—a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What’s the use? You can never be smarter than you are.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

“Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.”
—Nigel Short (b. 1965)

“Out of countless memories, invention selects a few that become “the story of my life.””
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)