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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
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[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.
— Lauren Groff
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
I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.
— Siobhan Davis
Dear family,I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine — Koh Choon Hwee
A short story is like a kiss in the dark.
— Stephen King
Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.
— Brian Koppelman
She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)
— Annette Meyers
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
— Bernard Malamud
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
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
A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.
— Mavis Gallant
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
— Henry Seidel Canby
What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.
— Stephen Helmes
I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
— Brian Friel
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
— Daniel Woodrell
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
— Annie Proulx
Unaware that he is only interested in the presumed parched pucker in her pants, she is more than happy to give him her phone number.
— Curtis Ackie
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
— Flannery O'Connor
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
— Joan Didion
All stories are the sin of their weaver.
— Miyuki Miyabe
Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.
— Christopher Bram
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
— Chuck Palahniuk
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
— James Joyce
Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.
— Isabelle Hardesty
Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn't look like the proper place for you, said Chase.
— Stefania Mattana
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
— Jorge Luis Borges
There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2
— Stefania Mattana
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
— Charles Baxter
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
I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.
— Pushpa Rana
Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow thee.
— Hilary Mantel
An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.
— Siobhan Davis
The world is just waiting for you to come dance.
— Tina Marie L. Lamb
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
— Joseph O'Connor
I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.
— Constance Renfrow
Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.
— Gerard Brennan
If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
— Alexandar Tomov
You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here ... maybe somebody else picks it up over there.
— Natasha Larry
She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
— Susan Engberg
We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms
— John Connolly
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
— Isobelle Carmody
I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
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
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
— Mary Papas
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
— George Stephen
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
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
— Daniel Woodrell
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
Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.
— Candace Bushnell
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.
— Hallie Burnett
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
— Gillian Jacobs
Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.
— John Hopkins
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 should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels.
— Guy De Maupassant
Short stories always seem to cost me blood, and I envy the people who do them for fun.
— Terry Pratchett
My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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[L]ife is one big jest at the expense of humanity. - 'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah
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
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
— Henry Seidel Canby
The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.
— John Howard Matthews
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
— Rebecca Makkai
The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.
— Stephen Harker
On the Writing Process:When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta
