Vignettes Quotes

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.