I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story. — David Means Copy Share Image
Phil Klay wrote 'Redeployment,' which is an incredible collection of short stories. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
“It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she… — Brooke Warra Copy Share Image
“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known?… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Apple of My Eye is a twisted collection of short stories by Amy Grech, including the sexy and deadly title story that… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“As a novelist, Scott's influence was immense: his creation of a wide range of characters from all levels of society was immediately… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
“And that one guy, Martin that everyone liked, well he had a gash above his right eye and bruising near his jawline… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.” — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
