One of the things I am most excited about personally is a five-issue anthology I put together, 'Legends of Red Sonja,' which… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“Unaware that he is only interested in the presumed parched pucker in her pants, she is more than happy to give him… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure whether that had to do with the humor, or with the unfashionable fairy-tale ending, which is very different from… — Jennifer Weiner 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
I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
“He chose a guitar from one of the oak cabinets. Picking it with his calloused fingers, he squeezed his eyes shut and… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.” — Stephen Harker Copy Share Image
In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Will had discovered, even before coming to the City, that his muse was, like all muses, an incredibly finicky and temperamental mistress.… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.” — Greg X. Graves Copy Share Image
“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
“…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
