Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I liked these short stories so much, but I couldn’t write like this, I didn’t have the imagination. I didn’t have any… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
“Fitzgerald to Zelda's DR. Oct. 1932 "Why can't I sell my short stories?" she says. "Because you're not putting yourself in them.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“No. No… No!’ the fear ebbed my voice, cut through me like a knife. I ran, bare feet slipping and sliding over… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ciabattari is a master of transformation as she gives these stories of loss, woe, crisis and collapse the salutary and sometimes bracing… — Jane Ciabattari Copy Share Image
I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and… — Abbas Kiarostami 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
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“One time, she waddled out and showed Peg her bandages from her last suicide attempt, which invokes sympathy in some, but usually… — David James Keaton Copy Share Image
“I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine.… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin 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
“To me, quotes function as the sunscreen against a writers brilliance. As soon as I cannot stand to look at the magnificence… — Martijn Benders Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes call “exformation,” which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and… — Ayana Mathis 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
“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
