Quotes About Short stories

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

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

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

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I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.

Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.

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.

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.

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

It is ten years since Virginia Woolf published her last volume of collected essays, THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. At the time of her death she was already engaged in getting together essays for a further volume, which she proposed to publish in the autumn of 1941 or the spring Of 1942. She also intended to publish a new book of short stories, including in it some or all of MONDAY OR TUESDAY, which has been long out of print. She left

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.

A sense of humor is always a bonus. As with dinner companions, so it is with short stories.

Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you know exactly what's happened. And also you have no idea.

I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.