Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“There's only so much evidence a small Jack Russell can dispose of.” — Peter Coomber Copy Share Image
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing… — Tobias Wolff 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
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the… — Eugene Marten Copy Share Image
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story;… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’… — Charles Bukowski 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
“Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“You hold in your hands a very special book. It contains one hundred carnival rides of terror. You must remember: horror can… — Martin H. Greenberg Copy Share Image
“As usual, Junko thought about Jack London's 'To Build a Fire.' It was the story of a man traveling alone through the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man, now. I’ve been alone since my 17th birthday. I’d wanted to marry, have a bunch of kids, and… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
“- I don’t know what else to say. - There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.” — S.C. Parris Copy Share Image
A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam. — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
