In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world.… — Ria Tumimomor Copy Share Image
“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.” — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“Although your marrows look very good, it’s not them I’m interested in..” (The Honesty Box) Love Potion” — Samantha Bacchus Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“On the outside, I 'm a husband and a father to three sons. I end to keep quiet and stay to myself.… — Ron Chapman Copy Share Image
“Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more lethal to the effect that a ghost story should make than for the author to provide alternative materialist solution.… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
