“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland 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
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'You're Not a Stranger Here' by Adam Haslett - short stories, a lot of them are about mental… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger 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
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
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 reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other… — Limmy Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“What are you grinning at?' Nal muttered. As if in response, the gull spread its wings and opened its shadow over the… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Just above Tommy’s face were the Maiden and the Troll, two of his oldest wall people. The troll lived in a cave… — Michael Kanuckel Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond 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
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAGE - MALAYALAM. I BORN… — Saravan Maheswer Copy Share Image
In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“The runway splayed out at her feet and at its height were the limits of the world.” — Theresa Buchta Copy Share Image
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess.” — Anu Lal 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
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.” — Stephen Harker Copy Share Image
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
