When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg 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
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — W. H. Auden 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
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid 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
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have finally proven that the entire justice system’s deep motives and its idea as a whole, which have existed for thousands… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Look, the Devil has asked me. We’re very old acquaintances, he and I, and I couldn’t turn him down. My estate is… — A. Tomov - junior Copy Share Image
I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can’t change a single word. What is tensile strength? It is that all the components are working together. I repeat: You… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
“THE YEAR OF THE RAT Chen Qiufan KORMAK THE LUCKY Eleanor Arnason IN THE MOUNTAINS OF FROZEN FIRE Rus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
“Dancing on Dewdrops" was written to be a pleasant reading experience that flows from one section to the next. It expresses the… — Mark John Terranova Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“... all of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
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