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
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
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’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
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend.… — Ann Patchett 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 was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell 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
“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think my style changes somewhat. The themes I am interested in exploring are mostly the same, but I tackle them differently.… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily popular… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
“She sucked a breath and held it as something consumed her. Something else entirely.” — Natasha Larry 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
“...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'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
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
I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. — Ayshay Copy Share Image
“I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world.… — Ria Tumimomor 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
[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
“This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.” — Namita Gokhale 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
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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