Short stories Quote by Ray Bradbury

“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad stories in a row.” ~ Ray Bradbury”

— S.J. Scott

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

— Robert Sheckley

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

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very…

— Stephen King

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

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

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

— Ray Bradbury

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few…

— Edna Ferber

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

— Jane Smiley

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

— Fred Saberhagen