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The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights) — Tom Callahan

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. — Charles Baxter

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

I want to spank you, but also want to know you want it. I need to hear it sweetheart, tell me you deserve it ... — Felicity Brandon

I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world. — Ria Tumimomor

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better — Mary Papas

Every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making? — Elizabeth Bowen

Sometimes I help him out and sometimes he helps me out, and sometimes he tries to push me through the wall. (Dark City Lights) — Parnell Hall

people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But — Benjamin Percy

I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me. — Siobhan Davis

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

You create your own reality. — Seth

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My — Ruskin Bond

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

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

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities. — Leni Zumas

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. — Gene Wolfe

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

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story. — Ken Liu

It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep. — Siobhan Davis

I am content when writing short stories. — Sarah Mazucci

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights) — Thomas Pluck

Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess. — Anu Lal

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

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

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

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think. — Paul W.S. Bowler

There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form. — Andreas Deja

Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth. — John Hopkins

This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze. — Solange Nicole

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream. — Lawren Leo

While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it. — Siobhan Davis

I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something. — Ernest Hemingway,

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms — John Connolly

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

A short story is ... frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V.S. Pritchett

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

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible. — Asif Kapadia

Life is short. Write naked. — A.D. Posey

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

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

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights) — Eve Kagan

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body. — Tahereh Mafi

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better. — Alexandar Tomov

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

You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here ... maybe somebody else picks it up over there. — Natasha Larry

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

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

I read your diary. I KNOW. — Mary Papas

I am thinking of killing myself'
' Hmm...okay — Mary Papas

On short stories:
something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing. — V.S. Pritchett

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

The short story is the literature of the nomad. — John Cheever

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

All short stories long. — Ali Smith

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 makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V.S. Pritchett

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage. — Erica Jong

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type. — Mary Papas

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. — Julia Child

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good! — MFR

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) — Kat Georges

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know. — Cate Kennedy

'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

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. — Anton Chekhov

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through. — Sarah Hall

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it. — Kevin Wilson

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

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

The only man she ever loved. And hated. — Mary Papas

And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. — James Joyce

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

Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood. — Cate Kennedy

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

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

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

Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business. — Gerard Brennan

Although your marrows look very good, it's not them I'm interested in.. (The Honesty Box) Love Potion — Samantha Bacchus

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

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression. — Isobelle Carmody

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. — Etty Hillesum

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

A voice reminds us that the land is ours, it will not be taken from us again; the country will never be a colony again. - 'Something Nice from London — Petina Gappah

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

People are weak when they are alone. (Haruki Murakami) — Haruki Murakami

She sucked a breath and held it as something consumed her. Something else entirely. — Natasha Larry