"A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film."

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Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jul 23, 2012

Lorrie Moore

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Film Quotes

“All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.”
“Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.”
“Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .”
“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.”
“Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.”
“Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
“High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.”
“The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.”

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