I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation. – Sam Abell
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages. – Zadie Smith
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother’s hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word ‘goat’ looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. – Tea Obreht
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree. – Shawn Amos
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. – Terry Pratchett
In ‘Thor,’ that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I’ll never look like that. By the time I got to ‘The Avengers,’ I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline. – Tom Hiddleston
I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. – Sarah Hall
When I came here at UTech, everybody was saying I was too short, and I shouldn’t think about running fast; it’s going to take me a while to run fast. – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
It took me a long time to know enough about writing to really write short stories. You can’t just immerse yourself, as you do in a novel, and see where everything goes. Novels are a very flexible, accommodating form. Short stories aren’t. – Thomas McGuane
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That’s no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying. – Zadie Smith
I cut a rap song once. It was a few years ago for my old show ‘Buck Commander,’ and it was a song called ‘You’re Short.’ It was about my camera guy. We shot the video in Las Vegas, ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ style! – Willie Robertson
I just find Bobby Kennedy’s short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other. – Tim Ryan
Short stories are fiction’s R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for. – Walter Kirn
It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city ‘livable’ for you. – Stella Young
I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament. – Viswanathan Anand
We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme,’ you will always be in short supply. – Wayne Dyer
One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his ‘little fat sausage.’ But I always knew I had musical talent. – Suzi Quatro
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. – Theodore Sturgeon
It’s easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ or ‘A Christmas Carol,’ it’s different; you have to build it and build it. – Susan Hill
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. – Stefan Zweig
What I remember about that experience is that if you went to go see ‘ Born On The Fourth Of July’ and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable. – Vivica A. Fox
It’s amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn’t matter because you can do anything. – Simone Biles
Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one’s shortcomings as well as one’s strengths. – Virginia Postrel
Time is short, life is short, there’s a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven’t got time. – Tom Stoppard