![In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-march-of-2001-i-revisited-the-short-story-and-found-that-thought-it-did-not.jpg)
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march problem stills
We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march. Al Sharpton
march stills fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is still on the march. David Brooks
march winter
We're making up for winter now. March is December. Rudy Cruz
march forget ides-of-march
Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March. Avan Jogia
marching people push
Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.
march serious
We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.
march ready
Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.
march orleans ready
I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.
march-on-washington social security
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security' Barbara Boxer
novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress. Charles Dickens
novel mediums prose
My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields
novel
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
novel
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. David Quammen
novel could-have-been has-beens
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Edmond de Goncourt
novelty please accounts
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume
novel knows
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. Audrey Tautou
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
short-story
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. Regina Spektor