#tories

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write. ↗

— James Rollins

#after #critique #fiction #first #group

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. ↗

— John Irving

#casualties #i #i write #keep #looking

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ↗

— Washington Irving

#am #believe #how #i #i am

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#connection #first #last #look #real

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#did #duty #feel #i #know

To hell with facts! We need stories! ↗

— Ken Kesey

#hell #need #stories

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job? ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#earn #intrusive #job #neighbour #salary

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. ↗

— Stephen King

#being #home #i #i can #pass

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#bonded #craft #destinies #emotionally #extraordinary