I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“In her hand was a necklace with a small oval pendant, a half of a locket engraved with one of the same… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas,… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
“(I hope at some time you can read J. R. R. Tolkien’s brilliant short story called “Leaf by Niggle,” because I can… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman 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
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means 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
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as… — Ray Russell Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Hmmm,” you muse out loud. Your voice is deep and carnal, a sound which sends new surges of desire rushing to my… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas 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
“A mermaid who somehow shared this woman’s face and name had betrayed him once. But this was not the same woman. And… — Alexa Rowan Copy Share Image
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
“He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
