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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

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

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

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

They write them long because they can't write them short. — Raymond Chandler

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. — Jonathan Evison

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. — Caroline B. Cooney

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically. — W.C. Fields

I write short stories, and I wrote a play. — Rita Dove

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. — Carmen Laforet

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me. — Susan Orlean

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly ... and I want it to be for my brother. — Maurice Sendak

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. — K.A. Applegate

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget. — Stant Litore

I write short stories. I write every day. — Isaiah Mustafa

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

I didn't want to write a book, even a short one like this, that would leave me feeling like either a literary gasbag or a transcendental asshole. — Stephen King

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder. — Mario Benedetti

As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate. — Trisha Sugarek

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

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. — Angela Cartwright

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury

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

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon

Cory is one period short of a write-off. — Cherise Sinclair

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. — Jonathan Coe

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

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit. — Martin Short

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

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

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

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. — Nicholson Baker

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie. — Louis Garrel

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat — Frederic Chopin

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write. — Roger Zelazny

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one. — Blaise Pascal

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

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. — Yu Cao

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

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing. — Ken Kesey

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

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

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. — John Barton

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain

I write long pieces because I don't have time to write short ones.. — Trey Jones

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

Life is short.
Write hard! — Gary H. Collins

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

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

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't. — Dorianne Laux

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

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan

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

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond

I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead. — Mark Twain

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R R Martin

Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last. — A.M. Willard

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

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

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. — Elizabeth McCracken