Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed.” — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Country songs are like cute little short stories told by nice folks I'd never want to be friends with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
In my free time, I read a lot, watch shows, listen to music, cook, write short stories and spend time with my… — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill.… — Donald Ray Pollock 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
“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
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
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
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima,… — Irving Howe 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
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
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
“I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford 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've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
“I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?” — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could… — Joseph Harold Bunting Copy Share Image
