College Quote by Gabriel Campisi

I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.

— Mark Kurlansky

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

— Colson Whitehead

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco…

— Andrew Lam

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little…

— Ben Fountain

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

— John Darnielle

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

— Anna Karina

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I…

— Hooman Majd

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested…

— Giveon

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really…

— Joe Robert Cole

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

— John Lanchester