Memorable Quotations: Short Story Writers of the Past

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of memorable short story writers of the past: Nelson Algren, Margery Allingham, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Augusto Roa Bastos, Arnold Bennett, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Bowen, Italo Calvino, Truman Capote, Willa Cather, John Cheever, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Janet Frame, John Galsworthy, Martha Gellhorn, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Sarah Orne Jewett, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis, Wyndham Lewis, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Howard Nemerov, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, Sean O’Faolain, O. Henry, Baroness Orczy, Ouida, Vance Palmer, Dorothy Parker, C. Northcote Parkinson, Luigi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Jean Rhys, Laura Riding, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Saki, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bruno Schulz, Delmore Schwartz, Sir Walter Scott, Muriel Spark, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe