Quotes by Short Story In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms. Alexander Payne short-storynoveldifferent I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food. Burhan Sonmez short-storynovel I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them. Dan Chaon short-storymysterystories The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. Edith Wharton short-storyformstories every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making? Elizabeth Bowen short-storyexperimentsstories I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. Elmore Leonard short-storywastestories You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood Ernest Hemingway short-storystoriespeople I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled. George Saunders short-storystorieslittles A short story is simplification to the highest degree Henry Seidel Canby short-storydegreesstories With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk Herbert Gold short-storystoriessweet I write short stories. I write every day. Isaiah Mustafa short-storystorieswriting The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever short-storyliteraturestories I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. John Darnielle short-storyteenagerstories Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. John Thomas Sladek short-storynovelstories I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up. Jonathan Carroll short-storypensstories So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content. Lorin Stein nighttimeshort-storystories In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before. Lorin Stein short-storytaughtstories Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections L.P. Hartley short-storywould-bestories I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. Nicholas Royle short-storyobsessedstories What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways. Peter Orner short-storygutsnovel12»
