If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien 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
“I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive.… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art… — Tedashii Copy Share Image
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most… — Connie Willis 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
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've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
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