Down and Quote by Vera Nazarian

I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many of the…

— Miranda July

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who…

— Khaled Hosseini

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

— John Darnielle

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short…

— Annie Besant

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college.…

— Thomas Haden Church

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could…

— Sloane Crosley

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked…

— August Wilson