Short stories Quotes · Page 2

I like short stories.

— John Updike

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

“I am content when writing short stories.”

— Sarah Mazucci

“A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

“I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“They(women) go shopping as bees go flower visiting.”

— Anonymous

“The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.”

— Fran ' ' Hafey

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our…

— Pawan Mishra

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the…

— R. A. Lafferty

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of…

— Burhan Sonmez

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter

“- Excuse me gentlemen, I know it is a little disturbing, because tomorrow is the end of the world, and that man…

— Alexandar Tomov

After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything…

— Chris Pavone

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I…

— Andrea Barrett

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is…

— Samantha Hunt

“in Hurricane Season, and still spends a significant amount of time there. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and a freelance…

— Michaela Thompson

I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of…

— Omar Epps

“You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come…

— John Wyndham

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're…

— George R. R. Martin

“Now, years later, he had been commissioned to fashion pictures with sugar water and dyes, a holiday mural. He had risen into…

— Meg Sefton

“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the…

— Irving Howe

“Think of all the different ways that stories get told. I’m working with the James Brown people on a movie that will…

— Ahmir Questlove Thompson

“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret…

— Jon Gresham

“And then another book, never read, long forgotten, catches his eye. The jacket is missing, the title on the spine practically faded.…

— Anonymous

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a…

— Khushwant Singh

“fundamental difference in approach can make the short stories of Stella Gibbons seem somewhat obvious in their tone. And yet this is…

— Stella Gibbons

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't…

— Wes Anderson

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

— Lynn Coady

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

— Tom Bailey

“I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?”

— Chayada Welljaipet

“All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.”

— Mary Papas

“A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

— Jack Kerouac

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle