I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?” — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Felicia’s Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“- I don’t know what else to say. - There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to… — Chayada Welljaipet Copy Share Image
“He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath 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
“Even if I had convict ancestry, I wouldn’t be ashamed of it. As far as I’m concerned, the real criminals back in… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They… — Len Wiseman 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
They were a very good form for me - the way a short story has to be designed in order to function,… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“As the thing came closer, what was left of Nick’s body became revealed and I could see how the dead boy’s eyes… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
“Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“You hold in your hands a very special book. It contains one hundred carnival rides of terror. You must remember: horror can… — Martin H. Greenberg Copy Share Image
“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“In a sense, each one of us was facing forces that were far bigger than us, forces that we barely understood. My… — Nallasivan V Copy Share Image
![“I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story…” quote by Len Wiseman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5a/len-wiseman-18620_bits_i-had-no-intention-of-replacing-arnold-s_1961572.jpg)
