Writing Flash Fiction Quotes & Sayings

A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss? — Mary Papas

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life. — Taylor Momsen

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause. — F.B. Meyer

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction). — Matthea Harvey

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics. — Glen Mazzara

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better — Mary Papas

I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in New York are minorities. Shouldn't you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population? That's a very white attitude, don't you think? I mean, you could take a white guy to Africa and he'd be like 'Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.' — Louis C.K.

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

Be weary of the selfish givers, those who do something for a hidden fee. — Nikki Rowe

You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard. — Annie Dillard

The only man she ever loved. And hated. — Mary Papas

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that's why I like flash fiction, it's a lot like using a shotgun. — Neil Leckman

The world's full of people with unusual beliefs, Julia. Scientologists, Rastafarians, Catholics, Moonies, Mormons, Baptists, Tories, dentists, captains of industry - every madness has its cheerleader. The asylums and parliament are crammed full of delusionists, and only a madman would want to eliminate them. — Hanif Kureishi

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

I'm scared that the pencil sides might disappear, just as a drawing can be rubbed out by an eraser. Bengali will be taken away when my parents are no longer there. It's a language that they personify, that they embody. When they die, it will no longer be fundamental to my life. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Amazing? My heart fluttered. "But I don't want Flash or Harry," I murmured. "You want Spider-Man," he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I shrugged. "And Peter Parker." He looked at me, very seriously. "Then don't settle," he said. — J.M. Richards

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see ... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty. — Ian Anderson