“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“My hope is that you read these pages and know you aren’t alone when you submit your short work. You are part… — Windy Lynn Harris Copy Share Image
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly… — Haruki Murakami 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
Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“Inside a wool jacket the man had made a pocket for the treasure and from time to time he would jiggle the… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.” — R L Raymond 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
“My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I… — Yelle Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy) Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and… — D.R. Mirror Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“You raise an eyebrow at me speculatively. “Really?” you enquire your voice full of sarcasm. “Respect me how Jenna? By choosing not… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
