"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form"

-- Irwin Shaw

#Trying Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Form Quotes

“I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.”
“Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.”
“New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”
“As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.495, eBookIt.com
“A king whoâ€™s innocent of the things of which heâ€™s guilty?”
“I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.174, Delphi Classics
“That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.”
“As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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