If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't… — Wes Anderson 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
I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven 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
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Copy Share Image
I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller 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
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive… — Charles Baxter 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
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
