Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the… — John H. Matthews Copy Share Image
“The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you’d never had. Behind it is hidden… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories. — Mouni Roy Copy Share Image
“Oh, you’ve made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)” — Pamela K. Kinney Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other… — Limmy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“This is something I've learned from writing my own short stories, novels and screenplays. Editors and film producers will often keep asking… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
My short stories are so character-based and they're also so private. They're like a private world in each story and I'm getting… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have… — Arijit Singh Copy Share Image
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess.” — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“The runway splayed out at her feet and at its height were the limits of the world.” — Theresa Buchta Copy Share Image
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
