I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. — Ayshay Copy Share Image
I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
“That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, how did you die, then?” the old man finally asked. “Die?” Matthew threw back. “Are you crazy? I’m not dead. I’m… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“If I could do all of that on February 14th, it would be a personal best for me. Something to share with… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams 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
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I’ve… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you… — Junot Diaz 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
“She changed the locks on my condo... packed all my stuff up and threatened to throw it out… And she's holding my… — Debbie Mason Copy Share Image
“And I feel certain that you will, because I've come to take it away. I'm from the furniture shop, and the bed… — George Sheffield Copy Share Image
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“There, in the corner under the window—the window through which he thought he saw movement before—was a slender white foot! Quinn’s heart… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
