Boomerang Quote by Jess Walter

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in…

— Alice Munro

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've…

— Ken Liu

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath…

— Diane Lane

I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

— David Wilkerson

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

— Sue Monk Kidd

When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and…

— Daniel Quinn

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5…

— Peter Sagal

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you…

— David Levithan

Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they heard or…

— Perez Hilton

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven