“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a… — Michael Faudet Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“Life is like a collection of short stories, full of twists and turns, and always striving towards a happy ending.” — Kathy Keroson Copy Share Image
“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes call “exformation,” which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his… — David Scheier Copy Share Image
“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Now, years later, he had been commissioned to fashion pictures with sugar water and dyes, a holiday mural. He had risen into… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have… — Arijit Singh Copy Share Image
“It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
“Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
