Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,… — Dani Shapiro 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
“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged… — Carla H Krueger 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'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it;… — R Z Sheppard 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
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
I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive.… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an… — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass 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
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
“My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I… — Yelle Hughes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“New York City is legendary for sleeping around. There's hot tail everywhere and it's such a big city that two-timing and even… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you… — Paolo Bacigalupi 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
It is very tough to make a short film. It's like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel.… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
