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Short Story Quotes by George Saunders
- I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a…
- Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
- When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What…
- I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only…
More Short Story Quotes
- 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
- A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
- NOVEL, n. A short story padded... — Ambrose Bierce
- 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