Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I’m an old man, now. I’ve been alone since my 17th birthday. I’d wanted to marry, have a bunch of kids, and… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“And I feel certain that you will, because I've come to take it away. I'm from the furniture shop, and the bed… — George Sheffield Copy Share Image
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
“She tried to slip out of his embrace without waking him up, but she felt him stir as she moved his hand.… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them… — Mark Mothersbaugh 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
“The strikes continue ruthlessly. I brace for each blow, numbering it as the heat subsides, and enjoying her tender exploration of my… — Felicity Brandon 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
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
