Children Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration…

— Robert Benton

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

— Matthew Healy

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you…

— Samantha Morton

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

— Flannery O'Connor

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

— Freya Ridings

I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on…

— Markus Zusak

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's…

— Augusten Burroughs

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200…

— Ray Bradbury

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey