But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Country songs are like cute little short stories told by nice folks I'd never want to be friends with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Spooky Twisties: All things Spooky, here begin They lay and wait, in books within. They sometimes pass, in open space. Then leave… — Terri Bertha Copy Share Image
“I made many decisions, some awful and others brilliant, but I found ways to keep that openness in my soul that meant… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“- Excuse me gentlemen, I know it is a little disturbing, because tomorrow is the end of the world, and that man… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do. — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she… — Brooke Warra Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us. — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
