100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Quotes

“I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, ‘Maybe he owed somebody money.’” “Yes,”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“When one looks out at the problems of life, and of the world, the problems, as well as the solutions, tend to be structural.”
― Lorrie Moore, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“One of the many interesting things about the twentieth-century journey of the short story is how, when owing to the replacement of magazine entertainment by television it lost much of its commercial luster, the short story reacquired or resumed or just plain continued its artistic one.”
― Lorrie Moore, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“She does not remember saying to you, the other night, right after your father left the room, He loves me more than I love him. She does not remember saying to you, a moment later, I can hardly wait until he comes back.”
― Lorrie Moore, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“She remembers picking apples in a field with Frank many years ago in the rain. It was the best day of my life.”
― Lorrie Moore, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made. The dead have no right to lay their clammy fingers upon the living.”
― Lorrie Moore, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“Anderson portrayed the city in Dark Laughter.”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“after a luncheon party with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Greta Garbo, and two producers—“I think it was a psychological test to see how I would act”—Knopf offered O’Brien work as MGM’s “European Scenario Editor.”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“Furthermore, in a new study reported in the journal Science, subjects who read Alice Munro stories—specifically, the collection Too Much Happiness—demonstrated sharper social and psychological insight than those who did not.”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

“I think our hopes are made when we are young, and we can never adjust them to the real world.”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories