Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“She sucked a breath and held it as something consumed her. Something else entirely.” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Oh, you’ve made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
People will think being the daughter of a celebrity is a very different life but surprisingly, we lead a very normal life… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
“He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after… — Brooke Warra Copy Share Image
“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn’t just… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
