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Short Stories Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- 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…
- 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…
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- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — 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… — Mario Batali
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — 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… — 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… — Sam Abell
- Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Unknown Author
- Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner
- One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not… — Damon Knight
- Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a… — 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… — V. S. Pritchett