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

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

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

Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken! — Avijeet Das

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

David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs. — Douglas Alexander

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication. — Robert Munsch

Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? — Hal Duncan

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. — Sarah Hall

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man! — Dave Grohl

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I play a nobody in Japan. — Jackie Chan

A man has no enemy worse than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud
about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.' — Marilyn

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. — Irwin Shaw

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

Of course Mr Bennet would be dead, right at the point in time when she most needed to upbraid him, — Sherry Mellor

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury

All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity. — Andy Paula

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

It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me. — Jane Goodall

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. — Flannery O'Connor

A failed short story is a few weeks of fruitless work; a failed novel is a dead child. — The New York Writers Workshop

Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business. — Gerard Brennan

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them. — Michelle Paver

Art is long and life is short. — Christopher Bram

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter