Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam. — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.” — S.C. Parris Copy Share Image
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means Copy Share Image
“In her hand was a necklace with a small oval pendant, a half of a locket engraved with one of the same… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The frame of the mirror was a deep mahogany and carved with an intricate design of what appeared in the dim light… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“Given our new situation, I think you should find a more appropriate way to address me Polly. Do so now please.” I… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It’s just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart.… — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“You gently lift my chin with one finger and stare deep into my eyes. Automatically I drop my gaze to avoid eye… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“He plunged into the foliage, and was swept into a humid, wet world of towering trees, animal chirps and thick ferns. After… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
“Then she is on me. Her soft, hot body collapses onto my own ravenous frame. She pushes my legs open with her… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
![“I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me…” quote by Khushwant Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f9/khushwant-singh-9061_book_i-had-lots-of-time-to-read-being-a-lawye_326605.jpg)
