“Lesson Learned: When you give away a short story, even if it's free, make sure you tell people that it is a… — Julius St. Clair Copy Share Image
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.” — Gemma Farrow Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I knew a girl and she felt like art. Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and… — Melanie Sargsian Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.” — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice 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
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“Inside a wool jacket the man had made a pocket for the treasure and from time to time he would jiggle the… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
“Mrs Davidson was saying she didn't know how they'd have got through the journey if it hadn't been for us," said Mrs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Toward nightfall, Khrenov’s temperature had risen. The thermometer was warm, alive—the column of mercury climbed high on the little red ladder. For… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
“As the thing came closer, what was left of Nick’s body became revealed and I could see how the dead boy’s eyes… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.” — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell. — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
