#short

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

#idol #life #shelf #shelf life #short

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#pen #sharp #short #sword #than

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#seem #short #sky #someone #support

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize. ↗

— Queen Mary

#economize #go #had #parents #short

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#connection #first #last #look #real

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. ↗

— LeBron James

#amazing #better #championship #day #dream

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#buddy #close #dealt #devastating #i

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees. ↗

— Derek Jeter

#i #job #knocking #only #other