Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us. — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris 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
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a… — Michael Faudet 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 imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“Kalyug Briefs : VOLUME I, II & III A collection of Short Stories Central Theme :: What Your Sow, So Shall You… — Aparna Gangopadhyay 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
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
“This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“He looked out the open window. So this was what it was like. He looked through the green foliage, over the ocean,… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Phil Klay wrote 'Redeployment,' which is an incredible collection of short stories. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story. — David Means Copy Share Image
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