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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

He's a hot bath, a short breath, 5 days of summer pressed into 5 fingers writing stories on my body. — Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters — Julio Cortazar

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 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

He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him. — John Howard Matthews

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

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories. — Jonah Lehrer

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

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

On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta

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

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

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

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

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

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.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

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

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

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

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

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 am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it. — Judith Guest

No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us. — V.S. Kemanis

A short story is a messenger from beyond mere thought, that wanders the Earth knocking on doors, praying for a soul that will let it in. — Richard Small

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley

But I want to assure you, if it's your last day on earth, even after 2,000 years, I strongly suggest you go for the Versace leaf halter dress. — Richard Finney

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. — Theodore Sturgeon

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin. — Isabelle Hardesty

Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here? — Natasha Larry

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All short stories long. — Ali Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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