#short story

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

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#generation #kind #length #like #our

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#based #been #eighteen #films #find

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

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

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

— Lynn Abbey

#me #much #novel #short #short story

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

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#i #i love #last #love #russian

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#art form #deserve #form #i #i think

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#also #brother #glory #i #i think

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. ↗

— Ang Lee

#close #could #couple #first #function