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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
— Ray Bradbury
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 short stories, and I wrote a play.
— Rita Dove
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
— Carmen Laforet
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
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 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
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
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
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
Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
— Ray Bradbury
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
— John Barton
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 have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
— George R R Martin
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
