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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
In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell.
— Frances Hardinge
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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,
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
The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.
— Stephen Harker
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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
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
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
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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
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
