Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
“There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
“On the outside, I 'm a husband and a father to three sons. I end to keep quiet and stay to myself.… — Ron Chapman Copy Share Image
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, SHORT STORY. TRY TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME READING TO HELP RELEASE STRESS AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIS LIFE. http://www.noveldaily.com/ ” — Short story Copy Share Image
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Oh," He thought, "There is something very wrong with this girl." James thoughts regarding Kristen in "Top From The Bottom" a short… — Donya Petrock Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a “single sitting” was longer back in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
