I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
One of the things I am most excited about personally is a five-issue anthology I put together, 'Legends of Red Sonja,' which… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one...… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Look, the Devil has asked me. We’re very old acquaintances, he and I, and I couldn’t turn him down. My estate is… — A. Tomov - junior Copy Share Image
“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Kalyug Briefs : VOLUME I, II & III A collection of Short Stories Central Theme :: What Your Sow, So Shall You… — Aparna Gangopadhyay Copy Share Image
Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
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“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
“He looked out the open window. So this was what it was like. He looked through the green foliage, over the ocean,… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily popular… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“Just above Tommy’s face were the Maiden and the Troll, two of his oldest wall people. The troll lived in a cave… — Michael Kanuckel Copy Share Image
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