![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 The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-march-of-2001-i-revisited-the-short-story-and-found-that-thought-it-did-not.jpg)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 forget ides-of-march
Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March. Avan Jogia
march winter
We're making up for winter now. March is December. Rudy Cruz
marching people push
Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.
march-on-washington social security
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security' Barbara Boxer
march stills fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is still on the march. David Brooks
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 men
Two or more of the participants in the march -- young men -- had an argument, Don Kelly
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
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
novels plot
I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. Ellen Potter
novels people physical
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. John Irving
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. Jane Smiley
short-story
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. Regina Spektor