Short Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or fiction:

“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

“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)