Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero 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 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 see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you?… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He chose a guitar from one of the oak cabinets. Picking it with his calloused fingers, he squeezed his eyes shut and… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You raise one eyebrow and regard me with another intense stare. “Start by stripping please Jenna.” I hear what you say and… — Felicity Brandon 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 began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That’s enough naughty girl,” you say in a mocking tone, “I am going to put you over my knee and spank you… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
“We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
After writing for 'SNL,' I never felt like I was properly writing sketch comedy. I felt like I was writing like humorous… — Julio Torres 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
“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
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
“Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his… — David Scheier Copy Share Image
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