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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

Short Up Chubby Shot Quite Until

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Love Poetry Short Create Possible

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

Princess Eugenie of York

Short Temper Fuse Sort Inherited

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

Geraldine Brooks

Short Kind More Your Paragraph Very

I don't punish myself. Life's too short.

Life Myself Short Punish Too

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Great Short Liars Little May Exist

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Work Eyes Brain Eye Reading Short

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Mistake Memory People Short Clear

Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store!

Me Start Short Driving Airport Own

There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'

Today Day People Short Push You

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

Short You Career Way Strive Write

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

Work Future People Short Judging

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

Life Patience Life Is Too Short Short

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

George Papandreou

Change Financial Short You Sell

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

Life Fear Live Business Music Short

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

Writing Think Short First Fiction

In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.

Business Time Brand Short Television

I don't want to sound arrogant or cocky, but taking a fight on short notice against 'Cowboy,' you have to be mentally strong.

Fight Strong Short You Want Cocky

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Father Book Story Short Kid Out

I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.

Woman Me Hair Short Short Hair More

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

Funny Humor Fun Short Serious Write

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.

Life Memory Happy Short My Life

'Darkest Before Dawn,' the short film, is basically the film of a man who faces the darkness when his back is against the wall and just about how miracles come in all forms, and even in your darkest times, it comes.

Darkness Man Dawn Short Back Wall

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

George Saunders

Writing Saying Story Short Now

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