Short Story famous quotes
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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
-- Carol Bly -
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
-- Dan Chaon -
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
-- Elmore Leonard -
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
-- Irwin Shaw -
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
-- John Cheever -
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
-- John Thomas Sladek -
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
-- Jonathan Carroll -
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
-- Nicholas Royle -
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.
-- Roy Kesey -
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.
-- Burhan Sonmez -
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
-- Henry Seidel Canby -
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
-- L.P. Hartley -
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.
-- Lorin Stein -
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.
-- Lorin Stein
