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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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

Shortest distance between 2 points is by 4X4.

Shortest distance between 2 points is by 4X4.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th...

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Quote by Lynn Abbey

The shortest to do many things is to do one thing at once.

The shortest to do many things is to do one thing at once.

Quote by Samuel Smiles about opinion, things

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require...

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, experience, history, nothing

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that...

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about nature

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about country, use, destruction

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching...

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

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writers, instinct, good, good luck

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than...

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writing

I can usually tell the difference between a short story...

I can usually tell the difference between a short story idea and a novel-length one when someone describes the idea to me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about idea

I wish I knew how to imagine a short story, because I...

I wish I knew how to imagine a short story, because I rather like the form, but they're too time-consuming for me to write on a regular basis.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about wish, time

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is...

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Quote by Francis Bacon about life

The long term versus the short term argument is one used...

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Quote by Lord Acton

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off....

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about doubt, nothing

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're...

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

Quote by Michael Caine about talking

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience

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