Short story Quotes · Page 9

“That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.”

— Jay Caselberg

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

— Neil Gaiman

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

— Jeffrey Archer

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or…

— Andrew Vachss

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

— Isabel Allende

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

— Regina Spektor

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

— Ray Bradbury

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop…

— Ray Bradbury

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will…

— Roddy Doyle

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it…

— Edith Wharton

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could…

— Hooman Majd

“Absently, Quinn reached for the sheet to replace it over the aged mirror, but the back of his hand brushed against the…

— Cassie McCown

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

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in…

— Laurel Nakadate

“I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed like a lily carved of bone... The Death of…

— Lewis Turco

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,…

— Debra Dean

One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely…

— Larry Howes

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a…

— Khushwant Singh

The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It’s just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the…

— Felicity Brandon

Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight…

— Alfred Rosenberg

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used…

— William Monahan

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not…

— Michael Salu

“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because…

— Justin Dobbs

“And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy,…

— Ted Chiang

“Cable TV turned out to be slightly disappointing compared to all the salesmen talk that preceded it. We didn’t have 50 channels.…

— Nallasivan V

“I hate this night. I hate that it makes me a person so truly removed from the real me; this man who…

— J. Tonzelli

“This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is…

— Miranda July

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.

— Peter Riegert

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

“Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet , you know?”

— Colleen Coover

“The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades”

— Kennedy Vega

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

— Gene Wolfe

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“It is better to take the other road, even if it's longer. Get a car, maybe" Green Eyes”

— A.G. Billig

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

— Robert J. Sawyer

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you…

— Flannery O'Connor

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

— Ruskin Bond

“I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.”

— Jamie Weise