I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“on short stories: something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.” — V.S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure." -… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
“To do is to be – Aristotle To be or not to be – Shakespeare To be is to do – Jean-Paul… — Alannah Foley Copy Share Image
“All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.” — Karen Azinger Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not valuable if poor people share it with you. That's how it is, in Dublin, and probably in most other… — Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“See Amazon's bio on don loedding and a review of his first book of short stories"The Search For the Bearded Clam" and… — Donald R. Loedding Copy Share Image
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'You're Not a Stranger Here' by Adam Haslett - short stories, a lot of them are about mental… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Dancing on Dewdrops" was written to be a pleasant reading experience that flows from one section to the next. It expresses the… — Mark John Terranova Copy Share Image
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films… and… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think my style changes somewhat. The themes I am interested in exploring are mostly the same, but I tackle them differently.… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
“In writing short stories—as in writing novels—take one thing at a time. (For some writers, this advice I'm giving may apply best… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
“Unaware that he is only interested in the presumed parched pucker in her pants, she is more than happy to give him… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
![“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2cf/william-faulkner-306_art_he-is-the-greatest-artist-the-south-has_2640538.jpg)
