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Short Story Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
- Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We…
- If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating…
- My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set…
- A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this…
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