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143 Short Stories quotes by 122 unique authors

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers. — Jami Attenberg
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland
I like short stories. — John Updike
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases… — Harold Ross
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate… — Leslie Charteris
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories… — James Rollins
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught… — Anne Fadiman
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I… — Jon Scieszka
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all… — Morley Callaghan
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
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his… — Eric Brown
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and… — Eric Brown
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. — George Stephen
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's… — George Stephen
I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It just… — Omar Epps

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