A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I’m mistaken…. for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.” — Jay Caselberg Copy Share Image
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It’s just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“Given our new situation, I think you should find a more appropriate way to address me Polly. Do so now please.” I… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“The frame of the mirror was a deep mahogany and carved with an intricate design of what appeared in the dim light… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
They were a very good form for me - the way a short story has to be designed in order to function,… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“For one… If you shoot me and your boss realizes it was without good reason, you’ll have fucked up your trial period.… — Natasha McNeely Copy Share Image
“And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy,… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
“She stared at the faded tile floor before her feet, but knew his every step around her small kitchen. When Martin touched… — Kim Bongiorno Copy Share Image
“I hate this night. I hate that it makes me a person so truly removed from the real me; this man who… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Mama has such cleverly timed headaches I wonder if she has any at all.” — A.E. Moseley 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
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades” — Kennedy Vega Copy Share Image
“Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet , you know?” — Colleen Coover Copy Share Image
[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
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