"I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages."

-- Susan Choi

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.”
“When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.”

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“About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.”
“. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.”
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”
“It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.”
“Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
“Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.”

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