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'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot
short story together love

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

Susan Hill
short start you long

I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

Susan Hill
short english some classic

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

Sue Miller
short story high-school school

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

Stewart O'Nan
short story service long

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

Steve-O
short personality perfect attention

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

Steve Toltz
short never day light

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

Steve Jones
short time sex art
Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short. by Steve Eisman

Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.

Steve Eisman
short good moon blue

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

Steve Eisman
short drive down i-can

I'm shorting two stocks in the U.K., but I've got a screen of about 50, and I might short all 50 if I think Jeremy Corbyn is going to be prime minister.

Steve Eisman
short going think two

My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Steve Breen
short quality trying fall

The goal of listening to customers is not to please every one of them. It's to figure out which customer segments serve your needs - both short and long term.

Steve Blank
customer short listening long

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

Stephen R. George
short just finished horror

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

Stephen R. George
short myself memorable time

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Stephen R. George
short dance real writing
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and... by Sophia Bush

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Sophia Bush
short life-is-too-short wine life

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!

Sonita Alizadeh
short easy song long

I had directed a short film called 'Girvhi' earlier, on child labour. It was a fictional story. At that time, I realised I could direct a film if given a chance.

Soni Razdan
short child chance time

When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and when I began anchoring, I had short, stubbly pieces of hair. And trying to report in San Francisco with fog meant my hair swelled.

Soledad O'Brien
short fog hair fall
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