“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
“London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.” — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least… — Mike Faist 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
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
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Think of all the different ways that stories get told. I’m working with the James Brown people on a movie that will… — Ahmir Questlove Thompson Copy Share Image
“Now, years later, he had been commissioned to fashion pictures with sugar water and dyes, a holiday mural. He had risen into… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“And then another book, never read, long forgotten, catches his eye. The jacket is missing, the title on the spine practically faded.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
“The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect,” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Although your marrows look very good, it’s not them I’m interested in..” (The Honesty Box) Love Potion” — Samantha Bacchus Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
“my new website is now live on www.danielborough.com There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun!” — Daniel Borough Copy Share Image
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
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