Short Story Writer

🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway

Literature

1899–1961

"In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken."

🇬🇧Virginia Woolf

Literature

Bloomsbury Group

1882–1941

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

🇫🇷Oscar Wilde

Literature

Aestheticism

1854–1900

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

Leo Tolstoy

Literature

literary realism

1828–1910

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power."

🇦🇹Franz Kafka

Literature

Realism

1894–1924

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

🇬🇧Charles Dickens

Literature

literary realism

1719–1793

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

🇺🇸Edgar Allan Poe

Literature

Romanticism

1872–1961

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

Anton Chekhov

Literature

Modernism

1860–1904

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

🇦🇷Jorge Luis Borges

Literature

1899–1986

"Thus fought the heroes, tranquil their admirable hearts, violent their swords, resigned to kill and to die."

🇺🇸Kahlil Gibran

Literature

Symbolism

1922–2008

"Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul."

Rabindranath Tagore

Music

Bengali Renaissance

1861–1941

"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."

🇺🇸F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature

modernism

1896–1940

"If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them."

🇺🇸Thomas Mann

Literature

"The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."

🇯🇵Haruki Murakami

Literature

Surrealism

b. 1949

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

🇨🇴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."

🇫🇷James Baldwin

Social Activism

1924–1987

"Audio files of speeches and interviews at UC Berkeley"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

Milan Kundera

Literature

1929–2023

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo."

🇺🇸Philip K. Dick

Literature

postmodern literature

1928–1982

"But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent."

🇺🇸Robert E. Howard

Literature

1906–1936

"We’re making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know."

🇬🇧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."

🇺🇸Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature

Romanticism

1804–1864

"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."

🇺🇸James Branch Cabell

Literature

1879–1958

"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice online at University of Virginia"

P. G. Wodehouse

Religion

1881–1975

"I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew."

🇬🇧Evelyn Waugh

Journalism

1903–1966

"Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape."

🇺🇸Donald Barthelme

Literature

1931–1989

"“The Continental Congress resolved that your famous plainneff and modefty would be ill ferved were it known that a houfe for your horfe was paid for from the public purfe."

🇳🇵Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Literature

1909–1959

"The thing which identifies is called eyes,understands is called brain, listens is called ear and feels is heart. To be devoid of these four things is the signs of being a beast."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature

literary realism

1871–1922

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

🇬🇧T. S. Eliot

Literature

modernist literature

1888–1965

"What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

🇦🇹Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Literature

1830–1916

"None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort."

🇯🇵Yukio Mishima

Literature

Postmodernism

1925–1970

"Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter."

🇳🇴Roald Dahl

Literature

1916–1990

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."

🇺🇸Gelett Burgess

Literature

1866–1951

"It isn't so much the heat... as the humidity."

🇺🇸Leon Uris

Literature

1924–2003

"A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare."

Cees Nooteboom

Literature

1933–2026

"We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality."

Ernest Dowson

Literature

1867–1900

"I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Literature

1859–1930

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - His Life, All His Works, And More"

"They Never Wanted To Be Themselves , New York Times, May 24, 1987"

🇬🇧Irvine Welsh

Literature

Postmodernism

b. 1958

"We are all acquaintances now". It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times."

🇺🇸Tom Hanks

Literature

b. 1956

"Man, I feel as though I'm standing on magic legs in a special effects process shot that is too unbelievable to imagine and far too costly to make a reality."