Short story Quotes · Page 15

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

— Nell Freudenberger

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story…

— Matthew Healy

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a…

— Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

— Lorrie Moore

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

— Robert J. Sawyer

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus…

— Carol Bly

“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and…

— Marjorie Hudson

There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have…

— Mavis Gallant

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in…

— Jess Walter

“words rarely mean much when it comes to trust.”

— Rohit Sawant

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not…

— Michael Salu

“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”

— Robin Black

I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books…

— Lawrence Joseph

Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a…

— James Patrick Kelly

Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he…

— Kate DiCamillo

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

— Bernard Malamud

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running…

— Nicholas Royle

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and…

— Alexander Weinstein

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

— John Cheever

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

“Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?”

— T.C. Boyle

“He stood just near the club’s steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I’d…

— S.C. Parris

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,…

— Donald E. Westlake

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something…

— Sarah Dessen