Short stories Quotes

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

“The only man she ever loved. And hated.”

— Mary Papas

“All short stories long.”

— Ali Smith

I write short stories. I write every day.

— Isaiah Mustafa

“I read your diary. I KNOW.”

— Mary Papas

“BE what you wish to see!”

— Wayne C. Long

“People are weak when they are alone.”

— Haruki Murakami

I like short stories.

— John Updike

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“her short stories read like perfect songs.”

— Clarice Lispector

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

— Gulzar

“On the Writing Process: "When in doubt, take it out.,”

— Barbara DaCosta

“I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?”

— Chayada Welljaipet

“All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.”

— Mary Papas

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

— Jack Kerouac

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I…

— Colm Toibin

“Life is like a collection of short stories, full of twists and turns, and always striving towards a happy ending.”

— Kathy Keroson

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either,…

— Sally Rooney

“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative…

— Namita Gokhale

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

— L.P. Hartley

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop…

— Ray Bradbury

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will…

— Roddy Doyle

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.…

— Lisa Joy

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote…

— Annie Besant

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I…

— Elizabeth Berg

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at…

— W. H. Auden

“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads…

— Kellie Elmore

One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not…

— Damon Knight

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in…

— Laurel Nakadate

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other…

— Limmy

I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up…

— Jim Woodring

“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing…

— Julio Cortázar

“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’…

— Charles Bukowski

“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody…

— Christopher Hitchens

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the…

— Lorin Stein

There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay,…

— David Sedaris

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the…

— Anu Lal

“CHRISTMAS TREE by Charles Dickens After the publication of The Haunted Man (1848), the last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas, he marked the…

— Charles Dickens