A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.” — Jamie Weise 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
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride Copy Share Image
“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.” — Carla H Krueger 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 saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed like a lily carved of bone... The Death of… — Lewis Turco Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My short stories are so character-based and they're also so private. They're like a private world in each story and I'm getting… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded.… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
“Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable… …a lot of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.” — Dr. J. E. Cross Copy Share Image
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray Copy Share Image
“You have to make choices even when there is nothing to choose from.” — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Just Another Day" is an 8,500 word military science-fiction short story set in the ATLAS universe. I will release” — Isaac Hooke Copy Share Image
“To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
