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- A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
- 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
- To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and… — Eudora Welty
- I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour
- So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one… — John Fante
- In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx
- My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever — Irwin Shaw
- Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on… — O. Henry
- It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff
- Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger
- Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that… — ZZ Packer
- I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin