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#short story

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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.


Lynn Abbey


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In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.


Leslie Banks


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I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.


Stephen Colbert


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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.


Tobias Wolff


#read #reader #really #short #short story

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.


Daphne du Maurier


#love #men #novel #short #short story

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.


Alice Munro


#best #everything #feel #fictions #happens

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.


Richard Russo


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When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.


George Saunders


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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.


Eric Brown


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You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.


Elizabeth Edwards


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