Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder which is worse: "To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all… — Jason E. Royle Copy Share Image
“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.” — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“Oh, yeah. He's dead, a voice inside her head confirmed. "No way!" Brianna backed away from him, looking around the room in… — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story. — David Means Copy Share Image
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.' — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too.… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
Not all relationships are meant to last forever, even when youre in love. Because some love stories are short stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
