I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.” — Stuart Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The driver watched the young female figure approach within his rearview mirror, unable to discern more than superficial characteristics. As she grew… — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“In the small town of Tirunelveli, where everything arrived two years late, television was only the thing that was instant.” — Nallasivan V Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Are you scared?” He taunted, an amused smirk lifting the corner of his mouth. I raised my chin a fraction. “No. I…just…I… — Beth Mikell Copy Share Image
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
