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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

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. — Charles Baxter

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

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss? — Mary Papas

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

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian

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

He's a hot bath, a short breath, 5 days of summer pressed into 5 fingers writing stories on my body. — Tahereh Mafi

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better — Mary Papas

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

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

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

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

I am content when writing short stories. — Sarah Mazucci

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

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut

All stories are the sin of their weaver. — Miyuki Miyabe

Short stories always seem to cost me blood, and I envy the people who do them for fun. — Terry Pratchett

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg

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

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better. — Mary Papas

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

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst

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

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

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

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

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were. — Brian Friel

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

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

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

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

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type. — Mary Papas

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

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

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

The only man she ever loved. And hated. — Mary Papas

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream. — Lawren Leo

I read your diary. I KNOW. — Mary Papas

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body. — Tahereh Mafi

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

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner

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

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta