Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.” — Laura Furman 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
“First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.” — Ryan Sean O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative… — Angie Thomas 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 write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang 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 started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met… — Susan Sarandon 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 was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“He plunged into the foliage, and was swept into a humid, wet world of towering trees, animal chirps and thick ferns. After… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“In a sense, each one of us was facing forces that were far bigger than us, forces that we barely understood. My… — Nallasivan V Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart.… — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
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