Circumstances Quote by Raymond Carver

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits…

— Catherine Brady

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.”

— Rhonda Fink-Whitman

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story -…

— Sudha Murty

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

— Edith Wharton

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from…

— Amy Sedaris

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

— Michael Ondaatje

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

— Joan Didion