Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.

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

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...

The Best American Short Stories 2003

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Lorrie Moore

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

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

Nell Freudenberger

I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.

Peter Riegert

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

Richard K. Morgan

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

That's No Ordinary Girl Ponytail (Short Story)

B.J. Neblett

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

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Ray Bradbury

Life is too short for a long story.

Mary Wortley Montagu

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

Robot Dreams

When asked for advice on how to write a short story, Carlos Cortés responded,

Carlos Cortés

I write short stories. I write every day.

Isaiah Mustafa

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

Tobias Wolff

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 scri...

Jasper Fforde

Don't ruin a good story with the facts.

Trilogies: 18 Sets of Short Fiction

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Raymond Carver

I am content when writing short stories.

Sarah Mazucci

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

Robert Sheckley