I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in… — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school… — Thomas Haden Church 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
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“And yet—and yet—she enchants me, intrigues me, draws me like sin to hellfire. The infernal regions in the hollow between her breasts,… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to… — Raymond Carver 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
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
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“There, in the corner under the window—the window through which he thought he saw movement before—was a slender white foot! Quinn’s heart… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is… — Henry Seidel Canby 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
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey 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
“She changed the locks on my condo... packed all my stuff up and threatened to throw it out… And she's holding my… — Debbie Mason Copy Share Image
There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
“Writing Skinny Chris was a very odd process – it felt like I had brought back to life a dead man and… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
“I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a… — Susan Lodge Copy Share Image
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