Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

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

Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

Harables: Short Stories 1

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Family Man - A Short Story of Murder

Everything happens for a reason.

What Goes Bump In The Night? A Collection Of 16 Short Horror Stories & Flash Fiction

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.

Ben Okri

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

Chad Harbach

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

Will Self

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows?

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Impromptu Scribe

We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another.

Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Ray Bradbury

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

Colum McCann

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

Daniel Woodrell

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)...

Jonathan Carroll

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

Up All Night: A Short Story Collection

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

Richard Bausch

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