Absurd Quote by Dennis Lehane

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get…

— Debra Dean

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

— Mark Twain

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was…

— Robert Osborne

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

— Fred Saberhagen

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a…

— V. S. Pritchett

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady