Short Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or fiction:

    “What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,—the eternal laws!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)