American Short Story Quotes

#1. It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method ...

Bret Harte

#2. Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

Gary Krist

#3. To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.

Samuel R. Delany

#4. Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Peter Drucker

#5. It has helped me to understand more about who I am- the geography of my own soul.

Chris Bohjalian

#6. No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common. Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.

J.R. Ward

#7. The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

Tobias Wolff

#8. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)

KoKo Nervelli

#9. Among the many queer things about the American economy is this: A writer can get more money for a bungling speech at a bankrupt college than he can get for a short-story masterpiece. What's more, he can sell the speech over and over again, and no one complains.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

Ishmael Reed

#11. Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Ahmed Zewail

#12. Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Erich Fromm

#13. We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

Kevin McCollum

#14. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
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Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Henry James

#15. The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.

Henry James

#16. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#17. We're all a little broken." Quiet. Potent. "No one goes through life with a whole heart." His

Nalini Singh