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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
I write short stories. I write every day.
I wrote my first short story in third grade.
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.
I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.
I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.
From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.
A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.