Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that… — ZZ Packer Copy Share Image
I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I think Florence and I noticed each other before the local train screeched to a halt at the 110th Street station,… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener 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 basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
“Let’s start over shall we? Hello gorgeous. I’m Justin McKinley. I’m head baker at Le Chef Petite. I’d love to get to… — Lea Barrymire Copy Share Image
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“It rubs against me, dipping between my hot lips and makes me whimper with yearning. You remove it dramatically and raise it… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the… — Brad Watson Copy Share Image
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one...… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
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
When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society… As a result there… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
