Quotes About Writing Flash Fiction

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

Mary Papas

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

Mary Papas

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

Mary Papas

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

Mary Papas

#6. Visionaries are limited by their visions.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Don't be too sure,' he continued. The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too.' 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.

Joseph Conrad

#8. If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

Douglas Adams

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

Mary Papas

#10. Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.

Alain Ducasse

#11. I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

David Levithan

#12. And you shall find upon the beach
The traces of my dancing

Stella Benson

#13. I scream, you scream, we all scream ... for the truth.

Stephen Colbert

#14. 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

#15. For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.

Tommy Caldwell

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

Mary Papas

#17. Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.

Bryant McGill

#18. We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

Antonio Porchia

#19. It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'

Ronald Graham

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

Mary Papas

#21. 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