#short stories

Most of my short stories are fantasy. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#most #short #short stories #stories

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

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I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it. ↗

— Judith Guest

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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. ↗

— Janis Ian

#fiction #fiction writing #good #good luck #had

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

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