Short Story Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.

  Yiyun Li

  Mistake, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

  Greta Salpeter

  Crush, Photography, Song

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• Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

  Avey Tare

  Song, Writing, College

  "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

  George Saunders

  Stories, Littles, Very Happy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting to see people come on board to support the project. It's gratifying to know that more people are seeing my work in this form than my work as a playwright. And it's been fun to hear people's response to seeing it. I've been having some deep conversations with strangers and friends about how much it has made them think about slavery and its impact today.

  Steven C. Harper

  Fun, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• 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

  Passion, Writing, Numbers

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

  Nicholas Royle

  Ideas, Encounters, Fiction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

  Nicholas Royle

  Stories, Obsessed, Written

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

  Nicholas Royle

  Running, Support, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

  Nicholas Royle

  Fun, Bored, Stories

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

  Ayshay

  Mother, Stories, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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