Quotes for All
I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer’s truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves… I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are … Read more
To imagine yourself inside another person…is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. Eudora Welty
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. Ernest Hemingway
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Ernest Hemingway
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly. Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. Edgar Rice Burroughs
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. Edgar Allan Poe
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that’s how I started writing, but I’ve also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it … Read more
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers. Christina Stead