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Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing. — Evan Adam Ang

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — Ray Bradbury

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision. — Louise Bogan

In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell. — Frances Hardinge

That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I hope that I don't die before you are able to read this. — Dan Chaon

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

I'm super, it's like my favourite meal and a birthday blowjob from Christina Hendricks in here. — David Louden

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. — Maile Meloy

I wrote my first short story in third grade. — Jennifer McMahon

I learned there were lots of realities in the world. — Haruki Murakami

Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet". — Christopher J. Pumphrey

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before. — Lorin Stein

A short story is like a kiss in the dark. — Stephen King

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable. — Siobhan Davis

I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way. — Siobhan Davis

I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he? — Jai Clare

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way - it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime — Bernard Malamud

Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? — T.C. Boyle

Geo, let me tell you a short story. Nanny State married Big Brother and then they sat back and bathed in the power ...and counted the cash. Smiling — John F. Leonard

She got injun fire in her blood, as I hear tell it, and it seem to me Lucy about ripe to snap a crack in that jumping bean she call a head. — Ojo Blacke

If somewhere I am honest that's in the "On The Record", short story, but can you handle it? — Deyth Banger

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk. — You Jin

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. — Jeffrey Archer

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

I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto. — Keir Gilchrist

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury

And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top — John Ajvide Lindqvist

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor

E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again. — Gabrielle Zevin

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be. — Stewart O'Nan

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx

Well, nothing ever ends well for crazy people in small towns., — Molly D. Campbell

Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven. — R. Barri Flowers

happened - but I am pretty sure my unconscious mind played a role in it all. Well, to make a long story short, the cat — Leslie Riopel

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

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

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. — Stuart Haddon

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

I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories. — Pushpa Rana

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion. — Petra Kidd

In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35 — Amos Oz

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself. — Adrian McKinty

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

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with. — Alfonso Cuaron

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years.
It is a book to be memorized. — Gary Lutz

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. — Edgar Allan Poe

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

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

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

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction. — Donald Hall

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. — Richard Russo

I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used — Ernest Hemingway,

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. — Doris Lilly

A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess. — Maile Meloy

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold. — Stephen Harker

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

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

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury

We were what we had in life, I thought, and I was not sad about it or apologetic for its corniness. — Danielle Evans

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. — Emma Donoghue

Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases. — Gabriele Wohmann

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories. — Aniruddha Sastikar

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that. — Nicole Jordan

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same. — John L'Heureux

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. — Chuck Palahniuk

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting. — Stuart Jaffe

If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. — Edgar Allan Poe

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves. — Haruki Murakami

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

Toraf nods in all seriousness. "Humans eat sand. That's why they spend so much time on land". — Anna Banks

I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish. — Raymond Chandler