Quotes About Flash Fiction

#1. I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that's why I like flash fiction, it's a lot like using a shotgun.

Neil Leckman

#2. I don't do flash fiction.

Charles Stross

#3. An infinite number of monkeys have said an infinite number of things about the Hugos this year. People on all sides have said intelligent and insightful things, and people on all sides have said asinine things. The amount of words spent on this makes the Wheel of Time saga look like flash fiction.

Jim C. Hines

#4. I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).

Matthea Harvey

#5. I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.

Marge Simon

#6. I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

Matthea Harvey

#7. A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss?

Mary Papas

#8. That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

Mary Papas

#9. For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. She would keep playing the role as long as the audience fell for it

Mary Papas

#11. The Lord is like lightening. Startled by its appearance and momentarily blinded by the brightness of the flash, when the lightening strikes a person is either destroy or jolted to new life." Elias the Teacher

Daniel Molyneux

#12. He tracks the rise and fall of the glittering darkness thronged with specks and tendrils of luminous secrets. Falling stars crackle in the cold air and prickle his skin. They flash in the corner of his vision where the eye's discernment of light and shadow is most acute.

John Pipkin

#13. The only man she ever loved. And hated.

Mary Papas

#14. Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.

D. Biswas

#15. To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

Tracy Anne Warren

#16. So when she looked in the mirror one day, and saw the beginning of thorny protrusions on her legs, a slight greenish tinge to her skin, she sighed.

It was inevitable. - The Monster In Her Bedroom, Havok Magazine, Issue 1.1

Katherine Valdez

#17. A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

Mary Papas

#18. She wakes up loving him, but not hard enough. He has dandelion hair. Stars fall and zip between them, they can't stop laughing; she falls asleep curled around him like a comma. He is gay, and often, he reminds her that she deserves better. She nods seriously and then forgets.

Meg Pokrass

#19. Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

Suzanne Collins

#20. He washed gold his entire life and remained poor his entire life.

Shouhua Qi

#21. When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented.

Katherine Valdez

#22. When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

Ray Bradbury

#23. She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

Mary Papas

#24. Amazing? My heart fluttered. "But I don't want Flash or Harry," I murmured. "You want Spider-Man," he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I shrugged. "And Peter Parker." He looked at me, very seriously. "Then don't settle," he said.

J.M. Richards

#25. You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don't want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes.

Virginia Petrucci

#26. The rain is a screen that changes the colour of the sky, causing a sepia filter to fall over the city. It is as if the city has gone back in time, to the age before the invention of full-coloured photographs. Light becomes suffused and quiet.

Justin Ker

#27. Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Octavia E. Butler

#28. A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

Mary Papas

#29. You should've told me," she repeats. "Because here's a news flash: You might've wanted to shelter me, but there's nowhere you can hide me that'll keep me safe from what's inside my head.

Laura Kreitzer

#30. You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

Mary Papas

#31. Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories

Eileen Granfors

#32. And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.
From an empty sky.

L.J.Smith

#33. Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because no one else does it for them, especially not those sotong RI boys.

Justin Ker

#34. Write. Edit. Repeat.

Miles White

#35. The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Mary Papas