Ghost stories Quote by John Lanchester

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

— Chris Bohjalian

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get…

— Debra Dean

I like short stories.

— John Updike

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

— Andre Dubus

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

— Matthew Healy