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
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende 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
“My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I… — Yelle Hughes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass 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 not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really… — Miranda July 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 was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about… — Khaled Hosseini 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
“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and… — Marjorie Hudson Copy Share Image
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
“New York City is legendary for sleeping around. There's hot tail everywhere and it's such a big city that two-timing and even… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it;… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an… — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him,… — Frank O'Connor 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
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
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
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
