“When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingStoriesShowsFeelingsWantedInterestingNovelPagesI RealizedShort StoryScreenplaysMonologuesInteresting WaysWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Shane Carruth
“Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.” WritingTryingIdeasStoriesWould BeHouseWaitingInterestNovelShareLocalsMagazinesShort StoryGood IdeasPublishingManuscriptsClassmatesWriting ShortPublishing HouseWriting Short Stories Author:Dacia Maraini
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed-he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.” MenGivingWritingYearsBookEndsCharacterStoriesNovelDogPerfectionInsightfulShort StoryChekhovRoughnessWriting Short Stories Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories
“I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.” WritingYearsLongI CanStoriesCoursesReadingVoiceAttitudeNovelHardestThings To DoToneShort StoryHardest ThingCreepsI Can ReadHardest Thing To DoWriting ShortWriting Short StoriesReading Novels Author:T.C. Boyle
“I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form.” ThinkingWritingMadeIdeasStoriesFormDifficultNovelShort StoryRight IdeasWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Julian Barnes
“I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.” IfsFeelsWritingStoriesHomeMightNovelAriseNervousShort StoryAnxiousBad TimesConsecutiveWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Charles Baxter
“All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.” PeopleShouldWritingStoriesFeelingsFeltNovelAgentsManagersShort StoryPublishersWriting LifeIsraeliWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Etgar Keret
“I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingMeanStillsStoriesLastsReadingNovelReaderHonestlyRangeCaliforniaConfusedPlotReviewsShort StoryLast DayGoodreadsPoint BreakWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Mary J. Miller