#short story

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

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I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. ↗

— George Saunders

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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. ↗

— John Sayles

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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alive #am #america #character #city

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ↗

— Eric Brown

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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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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

#contest #enter #home #honesty #i

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

— Tobias Wolff

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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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