Short Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or fiction:

“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)