Obsessed Quote by Nicholas Royle Download Open image “I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.” — Nicholas Royle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obsessed Short stories Short story Stories Storytelling Writing Written
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts,… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes,… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Acting was the first thing that obsessed me when I was 8-9 years old. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
