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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
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
— Anne Lamott
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
— Tushar Upreti
Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
— Abraham Verghese
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
You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
— Mary Papas
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
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.
— Kelly Link
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau
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
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
— Anne Enright
I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable.
— Haruki Murakami
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
— Robert Sheckley
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
— William Shenstone
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
— E.L. Doctorow
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way - it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
— Meg Rosoff
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
— Daphne Du Maurier
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
— Raymond Carver
I am content when writing short stories.
— Sarah Mazucci
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
— Keith Richards
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
You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.
— Mary Papas
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.
— William Zinsser
Short stories always seem to cost me blood, and I envy the people who do them for fun.
— Terry Pratchett
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
— William Gibson
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
— Eric Brown
I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.
— Jason E. Hodges
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
— Phyllis A. Whitney
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
— Steve Earle
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
— Tobias Wolff
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
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 consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
— James Lasdun
Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
— Lynn Coady
And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!
— A.A. Patawaran
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
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 began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.
— Angela Cartwright
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.
— Todd Barry
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
— Ann Leckie
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
— Haruki Murakami
I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
— Brian Friel
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
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.
— Joe Hill
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
— Ray Bradbury
I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.
— Steven Wright
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
— Joseph Conrad
A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.
— John L'Heureux
I read your diary. I KNOW.
— Mary Papas
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.
— Neil Gaiman
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
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
— Flannery O'Connor
I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and short nails.
— Judy L Mohr
Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.
— Ken Scott
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
— Hilary Duff
Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.
— Lawren Leo
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.
— Dan Chaon
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
— Richard Armour
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 man she ever loved. And hated.
— 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 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
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
— Ernest Hemingway,
On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta
When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta
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
The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.
— Steve Dildarian
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
Life is short. Write naked.
— A.D. Posey
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
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
— Jennifer Weiner
He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body.
— Tahereh Mafi
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
— Jason Isbell
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill