Quotes of: Short-stories Keyword

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Caroline B. Cooney

You're never too old to laugh at stories about love and sex.

Dating and Mating Secrets of Seniors and Other Short Stories of Love and Sex

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Lynn Abbey

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Jami Attenberg

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Tobias Wolff

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Annie Proulx

The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.

The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Neil Gaiman

Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.

Kiar

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

Andrew Vachss

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Jeffrey Archer

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

Hillary Clinton

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Skeleton Crew

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lynn Abbey

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Emma Donoghue

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 sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

Frank Tuttle

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

James McBride

Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"

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