Creativity Quote by Carol Bly

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just…

— David Foster Wallace

Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty…

— ZZ Packer

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up…

— Julio Cortazar

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 what I…

— Grace Paley

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short…

— Orson Scott Card

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one…

— David Means

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

— Larry Niven

One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a…

— Larry Howes