Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she… — Brooke Warra Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
People will think being the daughter of a celebrity is a very different life but surprisingly, we lead a very normal life… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Writing a book is something I actually feel like I could do. I don't know when that would happen, but I feel… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
“CHRISTMAS TREE by Charles Dickens After the publication of The Haunted Man (1848), the last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas, he marked the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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 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
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 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
“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'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
I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
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 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
“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 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
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
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