Short Story Quotes - Page 17

• Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

  Christine Sneed

  Writing, Two, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound On The Moon" .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.

  Vera Nazarian

  Moon, Two, Stories

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

  Vera Nazarian

  Jewels, Stories, Necklaces

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.

  Conrad Aiken

  Book, Typewriters, Machines

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• If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

  Truman Capote

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

  Robert Benton

  Writing, Down And, Stories

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

  Regina Spektor

  Play, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

  Theodora Goss

  Long, Finishing, Degrees

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Couple, Betrayal, Regret

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

  Harold Ross

  Writing, Space, Filled In

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• If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.

  John McNally

  Reading, Writing, Two

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• I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

  Andre Dubus

  Short Love, Believe, Stories

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

  Rob Thomas

  Patience, Song, Writing

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• You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Thinking, Historical Novels

  "Hilary Mantel, In Brief". Interview with Seymour Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 30, 2014.

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• I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Men, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

  Charles Stross

  Awards, Style, Trying

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• I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Lying, Thinking, Epic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.

  T.C. Boyle

  Attitude, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.

  Dale Peck

  Dream, Revenge, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Writing, Needs, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

  Mick Garris

  Kings, Fiction, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.

  William Monahan

  Art, Writing, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Space, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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