“Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.” — Dr. J. E. Cross Copy Share Image
“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“Junk?” Gram gasped. “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure, you know.” “Yeah, well, maybe it’s time to let another man have… — Cassie McCown Copy Share Image
“I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon 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
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
“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
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
“In the beginning we start with roses. The king’s flower right? Only they wilt in less than a day, especially when exposed… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“So the question is, what can I do to motivate you, Polly?” She eyes me salaciously and I drop my gaze, unable… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
“How about this?” she retorted, her voice deceptively flirtatious, and in that small, stolen moment in his mind, he quickly spun and… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
“Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Despite the objection from his mother he had decided to visit a clinic with the woman. He knew, he would forever be… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
“But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“She tried to slip out of his embrace without waking him up, but she felt him stir as she moved his hand.… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride Copy Share Image
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
