I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or… — Leni Zumas 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 was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Becky was a weed. Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants. People went to all extremes to make them… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
“This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.” — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
“I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony… — Walt Shiel Copy Share Image
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
