“Just Another Day" is an 8,500 word military science-fiction short story set in the ATLAS universe. I will release” — Isaac Hooke Copy Share Image
“To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
“Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make… — Stephanie Roberts Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
“[On The Catcher in the Rye] “This Salinger, he’s a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas,… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“(I hope at some time you can read J. R. R. Tolkien’s brilliant short story called “Leaf by Niggle,” because I can… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan 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
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
![“[On The Catcher in the Rye] “This Salinger, he’s a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though, it’s too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he should’ve cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crumby school. They depress me. — James Stern” quote by The New York Times](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da9/the-new-york-times-59987_bad-reviews_on-the-catcher-in-the-rye-this-salinger_2493117.jpg)
