Short Story

🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

🇳🇬Chinua Achebe

Literature

1930–2013

"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

🇬🇧Richard Wright

Literature

1943–2008

"Oh, Christ their disease had reached out and claimed him too. He had been subverted by the contagion of the lawless; he had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy."

🇺🇸Carson McCullers

Literature

1917–1967

", Susan . Oxford Essential Quotations, 6.ª ed. eISBN 9780191866692. Oxford University Press."

🇺🇸Raymond Carver

Literature

1938–1988

"“My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore."

🇺🇸William March

Literature

1893–1954

"...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided."

🇨🇦Alice Munro

Literature

1931–2024

"Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again."

🇪🇸Núria Añó

Literature

b. 1973

"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero."

🇫🇷Émile Zola

Literature

Naturalism

1840–1902

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

"…The resistance to English, the fear of English, has made us bad readers of English literature, because of our fear of contaminating the Spanish language, of losing it in the avalanche of North American influence…"

🇺🇸Grace Paley

Literature

1922–2007

"Well, a wish, some wish, Ruth said. Well, I wished that this world wouldn’t end. This world, this world, Ruth said softly."

🇺🇸Carmen Maria Machado

Literature

b. 1986

"I usually start from a concept, an idea, a form, a question, or a genre. Never a character or a setting. And I don’t write into nothing; I always have somewhere I’m directing my thoughts."