Short Stories Quotes

143 quotes by 122 authors

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So… — Paul Auster
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing.… — Mario Batali
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
Most of my short stories are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to… — Ray Bradbury
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the… — Sam Abell
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories… — Olga Masters
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will… — Damon Knight
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story… — V. S. Pritchett
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Hereâ€™s a new writer who… — James Patrick Kelly
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's… — Gina Berriault
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. — Joan Didion
Iâ€™m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays.… — Tennessee Williams
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of… — Alfred Bester

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