If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Cable TV turned out to be slightly disappointing compared to all the salesmen talk that preceded it. We didn’t have 50 channels.… — Nallasivan V 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
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to… — John Steinbeck 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
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.” — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — Ernest Hemingway 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
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
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous 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 can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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