Sentences with phrase «more than short stories»

It's not Amazon acting like some great arbiter of fairness in the sky decreeing that novels should be worth more than short stories.

The result was a recognition by Amazon that novels should receive more than short stories.

Read the Nag Hammadi texts and study Gnosticism... the Bible is nothing more than a short story compilation... other meaningful «stories» were left out.

Regular - season games merit no more than a short story in papers or a brief clip on the 11 o'clock television news in the teams» home cities.

I still wish Amazon would adjust the payouts for the titles in the program so it is more fair — a short story should not get more for a borrow than it would for a sale and a novel should get more than a short story, imo — but the borrows are still money I might not have made.

You might argue that it's only fair that novelists make more than short story authors, and I wouldn't argue.

Not exact matches

One popular example is the story of DropBox, which through the use of a reward referral program acquired more than 200 million users in only a few short years.

My thinking is more complex than this, but here's the short story:

Long story short, the IRS is more serious than ever about cracking down on cryptocurrency tax evaders, and it has three ways of getting its fair share from virtual token users.

Long story short — she insisted we sell everything the next day (which was also a significant down day); we eventually re-entered the market; I retired at age 53 in 1995; and today, my IRA is 3.5 times greater than at retirement (in spite of zero new $ $ $, 2 more market crashes, and 2 significant RMDs).

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

John Cheever» the midcentury novelist and author of more than 150 short stories» was selfish, unstable, alcoholic, narcissistic, sexually compulsive, and a rotten father.

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

The cycle of stories collected around his name and exploits testifies to his impact on Israel over a long prophetic career; but elements in the cycle partake of the stuff of sheer legend far more than in the shorter Elijah cycle (I Kings 17 - 19,21; II Kings 2 and even II Kings I are of different origin).

Stormy with freezing rain, heavy snow or just glacial with sub-zero temperatures — long story short, we are more often than not staying indoors, except for the necessary grocery trips.

To make a long story short, the movers had trouble with parking the truck, neighbors, and stairs on both ends, and ended up taking more than three times as long as they'd estimated (and quoted me for).

There's so much to love about avocados but the short story is that ounce per ounce, they contain more beta carotene, vitamins and minerals than any other fruit, plus higher levels of potassium than a banana.

Long story short: With the biggest workload of his career, Bridges has been better and more efficient than ever.

So long story short, do not offer more than very small amounts of water (if any at all) to your baby before starting with solid foods.

I'm remembering a short story about a child getting its arm ripped off by an animal at the zoo, and it turns out at the end that humans have evolved to have four arms, and the kid's father comforts himself that the kid still has one more than people used to think was sufficient.

The woman didn't speak English, so getting information from her took a little bit more time than it would have otherwise, but long story short, we got a description of her car and found her baby unattended in an alley.

Stage two was to widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for better local performance and more choice for patients - a success story in achieving the shortest ever waiting times including meeting our commitment to less than eighteen weeks from doctor's appointment to hospital treatment, and improving the management of NHS resources through foundation hospitals and the use of the private sector.

NOVA also produces digital short features for Facebook (the program has more than a million Facebook followers) and posts lots of stories on its NOVA Next online site that are quite separate from the content of its broadcast programs.

There may be no journalistic judgment call more crucial than the simple one of location: what story gets front - page treatment and what gets demoted to a short in the back of the D section.

Because Reinisch works with so many collaborators on multiple different aspects of membrane trafficking, her work is «more like thematic collections of short stories than a full - length novel,» she says.

Long story short: there's far more evidence in opposition to the claim than evidence in favor of it.

Short life story, I've been training for more than 20 years... been a personal trainer for more 15 years.

So to make a long story short, I probably wouldn't go more than 48 hours to ensure you don't sacrifice muscle.

Long story short, this week included more rest days (days sans a structured workout) than I would have liked.

I have absolutely been caught up in infatuation before, thinking that I had this awesome love story with this person, but it turns out that the «fairy tale» was more of a short story than a novel, lol.

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In a lifetime of movie - going I've been happier with movies adapted from short stories than movies adapted from novels, and movies adapted from novels more than those made from plays.

In the end, I found myself sticking to the story mode more than anything (which was short, but decent enough), but I just couldn't get into the game.

Based on a short story by Richard Matheson (which also inspired THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode «Steel»), this is more a human drama than anything else.

The movie is 38 minutes shorter than «Dogville» (although none too fleeting at 139 minutes), and the story is more clearly and strongly told.

the plot involving potente and furmann love story seems short and restrained to be more anecdotic than the actually main premise.

In extending a short story to feature length without embellishing it — at least in the plotting — Loktev suffuses the film with the kind of intimate, microscopic detail and observation that's more common to literature than cinema.

Wong Kar - Wai: This cut is shorter than the Berlin version and also it's very different because we restructured the story; we tell the story in a more linear way.

Released weekly in the month up to the first film's 4th of July weekend release, the story's short length means it's much more condensed than the movie.

It's a decidedly mixed bag here, and the handful of truly worthwhile pieces is far outweighed by a couple of shorts that seem completely out of place, some that fit the mold of a «little love story» a bit too obviously, or a few more that escape the mind more quickly than it takes to watch them.

For most of its running time, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's short - story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men consists of little more than a series of monologues, and plays like some abstract theater exercise, hosted by a college coffeehouse.

A series of behind the scenes shorts, all no more than five minutes each, cover the basics of the story, the music and design.

Where these aspects of the game fall a little short of expectations, the main story quests more than make up for it.

Soderbergh and I spoke over the course of a couple days this summer — about his new movie, Logan Lucky; about his origins as a filmmaker; about his retirement that turned out not to be a retirement at all; about his love for Get Out and the films of Barry Jenkins; about, in short, way more than would fit in a single, often condensed magazine story.

In another standout track, Small Fry's writer / director MacLane shares his influences (a day of fast food research in Portland, working in a ball pit) and the stories behind all of the short's characters, i.e. the fictitious movies and TV shows where Neptuna and others come from (more thought went into that than you might have guessed).

With perhaps the best opening scene of 2015, Wild Tales starts things off with the shortest of its tales: passengers on a plane quickly discover inconceivable connections with each other, realizing it's more than just a coincidence just before the story comes to abrupt end.