Famous quotes containing the words short, story and/or writer:
“However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)
“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when hes written it.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)