Obsessed Quote by Nicholas Royle

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

— Miley Cyrus

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they…

— Spike Jonze

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for…

— Conrad Aiken

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

— Judith Guest

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any…

— Frank Deford

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his…

— E. Lockhart

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself…

— Karin Tidbeck

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a…

— Sefi Atta

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann