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 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
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of… — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris 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
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
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“As a novelist, Scott's influence was immense: his creation of a wide range of characters from all levels of society was immediately… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
“...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
