Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [ ; November 16, 1857]
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.
We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
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.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
