Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As the thing came closer, what was left of Nick’s body became revealed and I could see how the dead boy’s eyes… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this… — Will Self 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
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby 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
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff 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
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
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as… — Ray Russell Copy Share Image
“In the beginning we start with roses. The king’s flower right? Only they wilt in less than a day, especially when exposed… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical… — Jane Gardam 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
“Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you… — Zack Love 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
It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
