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I wanted to complete 'Maryada Ramanna' in a short time, but it took me almost a year, and now 'Eega' took double the time, but in the end, it was worth it.
S. S. Rajamouli
Time
Me
Worth
Year
Took
Complete
Worth It
Almost
End
Short
Wanted
In The End
Short Time
Double
Now
The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
Sally Rooney
Christmas
You
Record
Window
Throughout
Wishes
Acceptable
Fitzgerald
Festive
Listen
Short
Heavy
Which
Rotation
Swinging
Keep
Season
Ella
The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long.
Sally Rooney
Me
College
Long
First
Too
Melissa
Married
Married Couple
College Students
Struck
Write
Students
Idea
Concept
Couple
Got
Befriend
Friends
Short
Short Story
Story
Conversations
Title
Who
Eventually
Started
Two
I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not always.
Sally Rooney
Understanding
Though
Poems
Sophisticated
Always
Very
Than
Short
Literary
Stories
Short Stories
Either
Forms
Novels
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
Sam Abell
Best
Myself
Me
Thought
Own
Creation
Think
Books
Considered
Photographs
Inside
My Own
Poems
Writer
Always
Essays
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Place
Who
Images
I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
Sam Shepard
Every
Think
Those
Would
Would-Be
Seemed
Having
Could
Write
Part
Like
Ideas
How
Go
Were
Condition
Off
Trying
Short
Just
Them
Reason
Expressed
Play
Early
Kept
Plays
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
Samantha Morton
You
Writing
Brilliant
Just Do It
Think
Poetry
Write
Writer
Talent
Like
Short
Just
Stories
Short Stories
Film
The apricot's fleetingly short harvest - only a few weeks long - explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.
Samin Nosrat
Fruit
Matter
Long
Few
Preserved
Harvest
Only
Weeks
Never
Counterpart
Fresh
How
Up
Short
Explains
Urge
Jar
Cooked
Measure
Season
Save
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
Love
Friendship
Love Is
Long
Increased
Though
Destroyed
Absence
Like
May
Short
Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.
Sandi Toksvig
Library
World
Sex
Made
Feeling
Reflect
Own
Films
Other
Books
Drawn
My Own
Outside
Part
Most
Attracted
Advertisement
Felt
How
Blonde
Up
Often
Short
Being
Much
Who
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Watched
All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.
Sandra Oh
Work
Seen
Films
States
Jobs
TV
Entire
Entire Career
Indie
Directors
Student
Student Films
Nobody
Since
Because
Gotten
Years
Canada
Done
Short
Moved
Mean
Last
Career
Two
Plays
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
Sarah Dessen
Love
Good
Me
Writing
School
Try
Other
Else
High
Collection
Would
Some
High School
About
Something
Something Else
Point
Since
Like
Ya
Been
Lot
Fit
Than
Short
Eighteen
Stories
Happened
Short Stories
Really
I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'
Sarah Gavron
Life
Made
Films
Nine
Television
About
Ten
Lots
Short
Short Films
Little
Then
Film
Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.
Sarah Hall
Work
Hard Work
Maturity
Strong
Listening
Reading
Nerve
Simply
Often
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Which
Mean
Them
Certain
Required
Hard
Meat
Even
Challenging
Amount
It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through.
Sarah Hall
Me
Publish
Able
Some
Through
Write
Allow
Taken
Feel
Checks
Industry
Years
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Might
I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
Sarah Hall
You
Creative
Writing
First
Sense
Write
Generally
Studied
Part
Course
Off
Short
Want
Stories
Short Stories
Short Story
Story
Then
Even
Novel
Creative Writing
Novelist
Need
Set
University
The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
Sarah Hall
Good
Looking
Down
System
Shadow
Underneath
How
Very
Short
Short Story
Story
Breaks
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
Sarah Hall
Few
Having
Writers
Clear
Judged
Often
Short
Short Story
Story
Novelists
Competitions
In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.
Sarah Jeong
Society
Signals
Has-Been
Cash
Been
Short
Currents
Information
Converted
Electronic
Numbers
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
Sarah Vaughan
Competition
Remember
Gun
Out
Well
Came
Short
Rican
Skirt
Who
Puerto
Puerto Rican
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third Class Superhero.'
Sarah Weinman
Class
Collection
Charles
Superhero
Over
Since
His
Waited
Anticipation
Short
Being
Short Story
Story
Novel
Eager
Third
At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
Sascha Radetsky
Teacher
Class
Man
Old
Brilliant
Hair
White
Rage
Athletic
Could
Students
Studied
He
Failed
Moscow
Reach
Academy
Stuttering
Ballet
His
Nor
Short
Tiny
Order
Wore
Fiery
Old Man
Flew
Cooks
Tolerate
Brigade
Level
Socks
I like to wear skirts long or short.
Saskia de Brauw
Long
Wear
Like
Short
Skirts
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.
Saul Alinsky
Travel
Events
Political
Degree
Shifting
Own
Control
Action
Trapped
Enough
Circumstances
Must
Tactics
Road
Over
Reaction
Forced
Short
Being
Process
Sensitive
Avoid
Choosing
Radicals
Resilient
Flow
Adaptable
I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it.
Sayed Kashua
Life
Time
Hate
Wife
My Life
First
Spent
Flying
Head
Over
First Time
Got
Shirt
Short
Just
Turkey
Then
Flew
Used
Flight
Whole
Ever
Flown
Pulled
I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.
Scott Michael Foster
Directed
Horse
Buddy
Wrote
Wake
Short
Short Film
Produced
Film
Starred
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