“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“my new website is now live on www.danielborough.com There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun!” — Daniel Borough Copy Share Image
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Although your marrows look very good, it’s not them I’m interested in..” (The Honesty Box) Love Potion” — Samantha Bacchus Copy Share Image
“All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.” — Karen Azinger Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more lethal to the effect that a ghost story should make than for the author to provide alternative materialist solution.… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“Running records capture what young readers say and do while reading continuous text, usually short stories or books. Having taken the record… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
“As though you read my mind, you steady my head between your hands and eye me intensely. Then your mouth is on… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
About the time 'The Half-Life' came out, I read it, and it was by Jonathan Raymond, who lives in Oregon, and grew… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“Becky was a weed. Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants. People went to all extremes to make them… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
“In writing short stories—as in writing novels—take one thing at a time. (For some writers, this advice I'm giving may apply best… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Life is magical, there are always mysteries you won’t understand, like the one that happened today. I guess that’s what makes it… — Chloe Gadsby-Jones Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“If the weakness of mainstream fiction is its deliberate smallness, the weakness of sf is its puffed-up size, its gauzy immensities. SF… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not valuable if poor people share it with you. That's how it is, in Dublin, and probably in most other… — Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure." -… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
“To do is to be – Aristotle To be or not to be – Shakespeare To be is to do – Jean-Paul… — Alannah Foley Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“See Amazon's bio on don loedding and a review of his first book of short stories"The Search For the Bearded Clam" and… — Donald R. Loedding Copy Share Image
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do. — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
“It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
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