But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a… — Eric Brown 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
“I knew a girl and she felt like art. Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and… — Melanie Sargsian Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The short story can be hot and sweet or hot and fierce. You get it in one sitting or you don’t get… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.” — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
“Gods, the love that saturated the room was so potent that Arabella couldn't breathe. This was what she wanted. Someone who wouldn't… — Libby Bishop Copy Share Image
I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great… — John Banville Copy Share Image
