Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Gardening, Momentum

• I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

• As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

• The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Together, Stories, Gathering

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

• A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mind, Machines, Stories

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