Short Story – Quotes

We are not quite

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works Gabrielle Zevin

The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy … Read more

I’ve been writing songs

I’ve been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I’ve been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen. Gabrielle Aplin

In college I wrote

In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it’s just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up. Gabriel Campisi

One night a friend

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy … Read more

I have written about

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It’s taken me many years. Eve Bunting

Writing is my number

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

I’ll always be making

I’ll always be making music. I’d like to do it my whole life – although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories. Evan Dando

A short story is

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story – you can work more by suggestion – than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, … Read more

The first thing we

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again Eudora Welty