Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of…

— Andrew Barger

“Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

“Read a short story every day.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads”

— Ronald T. Potter-Efron

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

— Dario Argento

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the…

— Hugh B. Brown

“If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.”

— Joseph Eastwood

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant…

— Dean Koontz

“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine, shout, and…

— Alexina Benavidez