“So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.” StoriesLastsHappenedGeniusPensMilkThievesLashesStory WritersStealers Author:John Fante
“In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.” WayStoriesHouseNovelistsRoughInsightfulShort StoryCarpenterStory Writers Author:Annie Proulx
“My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever” StoriesMy FavoriteShort StoryStory Writers Author:Irwin Shaw
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.” WritingIdeasStoriesPastWalksWrittenThousandFiction WritingWriters And WritingFiction WritersNovel WritingWriting FictionWriting By WritersGreat WritingStory WritingWriting StoriesCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteFamous WritersStory WritersWriting Every DayWriting Scripts Author:Orson Scott Card
“Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWritingTryingI CanRealSometimesStoriesTurnsThreeStreetsMonthsSittingTablesCrowdsQuittingReal LifeDrySpellsThree MonthsI QuitStimulantsStory Writers Author:O. Henry
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” InspirationalWritingStoriesWomenPowerfulGreaterBearsSocial JusticePositivityStorytellingAfrican AmericanMoving OnHard TimesAgonyBlack WomenInsperationalLoving LifeHave CourageRemember YouRemembers YouGreat WritersWriters And WritingTelling StoriesNovel WritingWriting By WritersGreat WritingWise WomenCagedAgonizingCreativity And WritingPhenomenal WomanInspiration To WriteInspirational CourageAspiring WritersCourage To LoveFamous WritersInspiring WritingStory WritersCourage To ChangeCreative WritersWriting From Famous AuthorsLove And CourageStory PeopleCaged BirdsI Know Why The Caged Bird SingsDefeated YouRemembering HerTelling Your StoryEveryone Has A StoryUntold StoriesCreating Stories Author:Maya Angelou
“It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.” PeopleStoriesPastRememberFormTimeGrewGrew UpNarrativeShort StoryStory Writers Author:Tobias Wolff
“Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.” PeopleInspirationalEndsStoriesRomanceYoungLove IsConcernedBlindLove StoryExcitementFinestAltarsGlamourStory Writers Author:Irving Stone
“I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.” PeopleFirstsMeanEnoughStoriesTeachSupportOne ThingThese DaysShort StoryPublishingAmyTobiasStory Writers Author:Chad Harbach
“Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.” WritingKindLongCharacterStoriesParticularDrivenShort StoryStory Writers Author:Nell Freudenberger
“Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.” ThinkingWorldWritingWellsLittlesEndsStoriesFormRoomsFivePagesWeaknessDifficultyFatsGenreShort StoryStory Writers Author:ZZ Packer