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
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities,… — Kristin Hannah 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
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
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe,… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Here’s to a tasty lunch,” she says, winking at me. It’s the strangest thing, but I actually feel my body respond to… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“You land a second strike, this time just on my left cheek. It feels hard already and stings like hell. I imagine… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a “single sitting” was longer back in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“Oh," He thought, "There is something very wrong with this girl." James thoughts regarding Kristen in "Top From The Bottom" a short… — Donya Petrock Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, SHORT STORY. TRY TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME READING TO HELP RELEASE STRESS AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIS LIFE. http://www.noveldaily.com/ ” — Short story Copy Share Image
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell 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've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
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