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You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. ~ Larry Niven

Who would have thought God would send a bad man and a sheriff just to save Prince? ~ Debra Holland

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

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying. ~ Zadie Smith

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form. ~ Julian Barnes

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. ~ Dan Chaon

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. ~ David Sedaris

Most of my short stories are fantasy. ~ Ray Bradbury

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. ~ Isobelle Carmody

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it. ~ Judith Guest

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. ~ Caroline B. Cooney

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. ~ Alice Fulton

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels. ~ Jasper Fforde

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.' ~ Hillary Clinton

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do. ~ Robin Hobb

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. ~ Jack Kerouac

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. ~ Nell Freudenberger

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day. ~ Mark Mothersbaugh

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. ~ Jonathan Coe

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' ~ Daniel Woodrell

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. ~ Mick Garris

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. ~ George R R Martin

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. ~ George Stephen

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. ~ Helen Dunmore

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry. ~ Ian Rankin

I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else. ~ Nicholas Royle

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. ~ Jami Attenberg

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. ~ Elmore Leonard

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one ... ~ Lawrence Block

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor. ~ Gene Wilder

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller. ~ Lynn Coady

my new website is now live on www.danielborough.com There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun! ~ Daniel Borough

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form. ~ Rebecca Makkai

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories. ~ Jane Lindskold

Robert Louis Stevenson ... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ~ Jane Birkin

All stories are the sin of their weaver. ~ Miyuki Miyabe

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom. ~ Marie Brennan

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write. ~ Roger Zelazny

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. ~ Joe Abercrombie

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. ~ Molly Antopol

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers. ~ Laurel Nakadate

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. ~ Eve Bunting

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience. ~ Deborah Eisenberg

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. ~ Walker Percy

I am content when writing short stories. ~ Sarah Mazucci

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? ~ Jennifer Weiner

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. ~ Sergio Aragones

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film. ~ Gia Coppola

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike ... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing. ~ Carol Windley

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists. ~ Daniel Woodrell

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out. ~ Candace Bushnell

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for. ~ Walter Kirn

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. ~ Neil Gaiman

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life. ~ Lauren Groff

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk ~ Herbert Gold

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from a much deeper place. ~ Lynn Coady

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. ~ Roddy Doyle

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.' ~ Gillian Jacobs

When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental. ~ Kate Grenville

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition. ~ Norman Jewison

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it. ~ Hooman Majd

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy. ~ Ali Smith

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading. ~ R.A. Lafferty

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because
I don't know why. ~ Anton Chekhov

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

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She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her ~ Susan Engberg

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

I write short stories. I write every day. ~ Isaiah Mustafa

I don't think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story. ~ Mary Lavin

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. ~ Deborah Eisenberg

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ~ Irwin Shaw

I've been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want? ~ Chayada Welljaipet

Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime.
And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime. ~ David Levithan

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories. ~ Aleksandar Hemon

Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky. ~ Justine Larbalestier

My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. ~ Eric Brown

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters. ~ Susan Minot

I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories. ~ Pushpa Rana

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock. ~ William H Gass

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes. ~ Orson Scott Card

If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed. ~ Pawan Mishra

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels ... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist
ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. ~ Jonathan Carroll

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish. ~ Kate Atkinson

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself. ~ Brian D. McLaren

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before. ~ Lorin Stein

One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be remembered, and if not remembered the stories will not be reprinted (because no one can find them). ~ Damon Knight

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously. ~ Mal Peet

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again ~ Eudora Welty

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. ~ Ben Lerner

Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story. ~ Andrew Barger

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

Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I'm not sure what is planned, if, you go against their wishes. But, I'm sure you're smart and won't test them. ~ Chayada Welljaipet

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights. ~ Amy Bloom