I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music…

— Elizabeth Bishop

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

— Lydia Davis

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

— Gustav Mahler

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and…

— Soledad O'Brien

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience…

— Linda Lavin

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a…

— Stephen King

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally.…

— Ice T

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the…

— Lesley Gore

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies…

— Ehren Kruger

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it…

— Joe Frazier

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

— Robert Burns

I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a…

— Joe Sacco

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

— Billie Whitelaw