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143 Short Stories quotes by 122 unique authors

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to… — Karen Russell
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression. — Isobelle Carmody
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of… — Lynn Abbey
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it… — Orson Scott Card
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her… — Terry Southern
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. — Caroline B. Cooney
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every… — Mark Mothersbaugh
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get… — James Webb Young
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a… — Doris Grumbach
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. — Sergio Aragones
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,… — Dudley Nichols
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a… — Elizabeth Sims
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works — Gabrielle Zevin
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write… — Natalie Goldberg
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or… — Satyajit Ray
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in… — Laura Hillenbrand
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into… — Jonathan Coe
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same… — Isobelle Carmody
Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike… — Sarah Silverman
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and… — Ambrose Bierce
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman
The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. — Fredric Brown

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