“[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.” StoriesRedShort StoryMarijuanaDirtGreat Short Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.” ThinkingWayMadeIdeasNovelModernDadRight NowBusyTalesToo BusyFaerieChroniclesModern DayGreat Short Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Experience comes from bad judgment.” MountainJudgmentExperienceJudgementProgrammingClimbsAviationClimbingLife ExperienceAphorismHikingComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesMountaineeringProject ManagementComputer LanguageGreat AviationMountain ClimbingLearning ExperienceClimbing MountainRock ClimbingGreat ExperiencesClimbersInspirational Mountain ClimbingHiking In The MountainsGood JudgmentClimbing Mountains InspirationalBad ExperiencesClimbing To The TopLearning Something NewQuality ManagementExperience LoveAlma MaterGood JudgementExperience And LearningNothing Is EasyWork ExperienceGreat Short Author:Mark Twain
“You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.” MomentsStoriesGirlUniverseFeltStuffInterestingBoysCrazyDogEmotionalGoes OnScenePureCatCoreMost InterestingDutchPoopWindmillsInteresting StoriesGreat Short Author:John August
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” InspirationalMotivationalSuccessNightBornAchieveGreatnessLinksOfficersSonnetThrustPublic RelationsBirth And DeathAchieve GreatnessMacbeth PlayBardsTrue GreatnessMost MemorableBorn LeadersTop 100Twelfth Night ImportantGreat NightMind PlayingDestined For GreatnessLesser KnownSpin DoctorsGreat Short Author:William Shakespeare
“Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.” FirstsStoriesRealityLosesTeachProduceReaderSkillsCreaturesSentencesIntenseObsessionContactDullSurroundManifestShort StoryCompellingGreat Short Author:Julio Cortazar
“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.” WayKindPersonsSometimesStoriesCertainCausesCommonInformationCommunicationDependsJokesConnectionsInsightfulShort StoryQuantityExplosionsTheoristsGreat Short Author:David Foster Wallace
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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.” NightBornAchieveGreatnessOfficersSonnetThrustPublic RelationsBirth And DeathAchieve GreatnessMacbeth PlayBardsTrue GreatnessMost MemorableBorn LeadersTop 100Twelfth Night ImportantGreat NightMind PlayingDestined For GreatnessLesser KnownSpin DoctorsGreat Short Author:Daniel J. Boorstin