Fiction Quote by Irwin Shaw Download Open image “Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form” — Irwin Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Writing
Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words! — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school… — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one… — David Means Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey the rules of progression for novels.… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time. — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and wikis to… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one victor. After… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“The abuse of alcohol,” Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, “is the one thing that puts… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
