Best Short Stories Sayings

143 Short Stories quotes by 122 unique authors

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best… — Tobias Wolff
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals;… — Wole Soyinka
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of… — Norman Jewison
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff… — Michael Chabon
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's… — Jane Birkin
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to… — Irwin Shaw
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of… — Donald E. Westlake
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated… — Gary Saul Morson
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories. — Jonah Lehrer
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't… — Samantha Morton
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write… — Dennis Lehane
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking.… — Tamora Pierce
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and… — Anne Lamott
I write short stories. I write every day. — Isaiah Mustafa
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of… — Daniel Woodrell
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out. — Candace Bushnell
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. — Dan Chaon
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can… — Anthony Doerr
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't… — Nell Freudenberger
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel… — Howard Gordon
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what… — Wes Anderson

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