Short stories Quotes · Page 2

“All short stories long.”

— Ali Smith

“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?”

— Ryan Goodrich

“Behind its blue face, the love of the sky shines in the gleam of stars.”

— Anu Lal

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

— Caroline B. Cooney

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

— Matthew Healy

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

— Jami Attenberg

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

— Dan Chaon

“Being mythological does wonders for one's ego.”

— Sylvia Plath

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

— Neil Gaiman

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

— Lorin Stein

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.”

— Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

— George Stephen

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I…

— Dee Rees

“Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you,” said Chase.”

— Stefania Mattana

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in…

— Gillian Jacobs

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book…

— Mario Batali

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel,…

— Alice Munro

Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main…

— Elizabeth Sims

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating…

— Liza Campbell

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent…

— Donald E. Westlake

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between…

— Dan Chaon

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short…

— Lorin Stein

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

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too.…

— Peter Robinson

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

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

“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that…

— Haruki Murakami

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“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

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

“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

“An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.”

— Karen Azinger

“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.”

— Alexandar Tomov

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”

— Christopher Bram

“ A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss?”

— Mary Papas

“The weakness of a man is the strength of a woman”

— Santosh Avvannavar

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

— Lynn Coady

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay