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I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,… — Don DeLillo
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the… — John Cheever
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it,… — R. A. Lafferty
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short… — Billy Bob Thornton
As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers… — Neil Gaiman
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the… — Neil Gaiman
I write short stories, and I wrote a play. — Rita Dove
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't… — George R. R. Martin
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel… — Joyce Carol Oates
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't… — Daniel Radcliffe
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or… — Zadie Smith
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. — Theodore Sturgeon
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for… — Paul Theroux
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up… — Colm Toibin
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… — Marisha Pessl

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