Books Quote by Jane Birkin

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

— Quintin Jardine

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of his short…

— George Orwell

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his…

— Spike Jonze

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”

— Christopher Bram

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

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“I knew the boys in my first novel, which I was writing at that time, weren't as raw as they could be, weren't real.…

— Ward Jesmyn

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

— John Darnielle

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a…

— Paul Auster

“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.”

— Andrew Barger