Giving Quote by O. Henry

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule…

— O. Henry

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there…

— Neil Gaiman

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That…

— Neil Gaiman

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short…

— Orson Scott Card

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

“There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And…

— Nicholas Trandahl

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written…

— James A. Michener

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a…

— V. S. Pritchett

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

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course,…

— Fredric Brown