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While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. ↗


— Jeffrey Archer


#book #short-story #short-story

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. ↗


— Charlotte Perkins Gilman


#feminism #short-story #short-story

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career. ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#short-story

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world. ↗


— Mark Twain


#short-story

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black. ↗


— Salman Rushdie


#short-stories #short-story

Good choice, Polly,” she soothes, caressing my long, dark hair. “You may not have been fucked by a woman before but, if you’re a good girl now, then you soon will be… ↗


— Felicity Brandon


#erotica #f-f #humiliation #short-story #spanking

Then she is on me. Her soft, hot body collapses onto my own ravenous frame. She pushes my legs open with her knees and pulls my arms above my head with her hands, holding me a willing hostage. For one long moment we are eye to eye. Her breasts press down into my nipples, goading them but offering no release, and then her lips come crashing down on mine. She kisses me as though she already owns me; exploring my mouth with her tongue, dragging it aggressively from one side of my lips to the other. ↗


— Felicity Brandon


#erotica #f-f #humiliation #short-story #spanking

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ↗


— Jack Adams


#class #first #first class #got #me

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#balance #because #commitment #different #dull






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