Short Story Writing Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Short Story Writing

Short Story Writing Quotes & Sayings

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. — O. Henry

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night. — Lorrie Moore

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau

I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable. — Haruki Murakami

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. — Robert Sheckley

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F Scott Fitzgerald

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey

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

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

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. — Daphne Du Maurier

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver

I am content when writing short stories. — Sarah Mazucci

I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon. — Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down." — Mitchell Hurwitz

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. — Roger Zelazny

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

She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending. — Anne Lamott

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer. — Carla H. Krueger

Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story. — Dan Chaon

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. — Lorrie Moore

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed. — Edward Gorey

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende

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

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. — Eric Brown

I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary. — Jason E. Hodges

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story. — Ferdie Pacheco

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