My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lesson Learned: When you give away a short story, even if it's free, make sure you tell people that it is a… — Julius St. Clair Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.' — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.” — Ryan Sean O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton 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
“Absently, Quinn reached for the sheet to replace it over the aged mirror, but the back of his hand brushed against the… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it;… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an… — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen Russian nesting dolls?” Thrown by the questions, she opened her eyes. Why would he suddenly speak about a… — Dominique Eastwick Copy Share Image
“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“Have you ever done something so far out of your normal behavior that it was freeing?” She wouldn’t plead, but she wasn’t… — Lea Barrymire Copy Share Image
“The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the… — Eugene Marten Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story;… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“You hold in your hands a very special book. It contains one hundred carnival rides of terror. You must remember: horror can… — Martin H. Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
