Short stories Quote by Harold Ross

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or…

— Harold Ross

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical…

— Neil Gaiman

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“Even the greatest stories can be summed up in a few paragraphs. What makes them so much longer, is all the time spent editing.”

— Jason Mallory

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a…

— Charles Bukowski

“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best…

— Roy Peter Clark

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

— Aniruddha Sastikar