Short Story Quotes

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray Bradbury

Girl, Short, Her

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig

Short, Problems, Rather

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Die, Short

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Ang Lee

Love, Short, Story

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Elizabeth Edwards

Real, Short, Tell

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Neil Gaiman

Art, Respect, Short

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.
Neil Gaiman

Short, Brother, Story

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
George Saunders

Good, Short, Whatever

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
George Saunders

Greatest, Short, Story

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
George Saunders

Saying, Writing, Working

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
George Saunders

Love, Short, Around

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.
Sloane Crosley

Short, Old, Story

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Banks

Time, Money, Home

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
David Friedman

Good, Christmas, Different

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert

Teacher, School, Girl

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Richard Russo

Mind, Short, Once

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier

Love, Women, Men

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
John Sayles

Yourself, Writing, Pretty

My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
Kate Atkinson

Time, Women, Writing

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
Satyajit Ray

Long, Made, Two

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
Lynn Abbey

Writing, Short, Story

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
Anne McCaffrey

Time, Words, Through

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
George Murray

Short, Write, Once

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
Tobias Wolff

Short, Read, Story

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
Tobias Wolff

Love, Short, Last

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
Tobias Wolff

Best, Poetry, Different

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
Tobias Wolff

Everything, Short, Story

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
Tobias Wolff

Time, Past, Remember

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
Tobias Wolff

Perfect, Short, American

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
Chad Harbach

Money, Live, Mean

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