Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers… — Giveon Copy Share Image
I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“I want to spank you, but also want to know you want it. I need to hear it sweetheart, tell me you… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
“Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
After writing for 'SNL,' I never felt like I was properly writing sketch comedy. I felt like I was writing like humorous… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you?… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“I'd ride with you, but I'm the Lord of the Fucking Darkness and you drive a Prius so…you know.” — Vincent V. Cava Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“She sucked a breath and held it as something consumed her. Something else entirely.” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.” — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear… “It’s best to watch out for… — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
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