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I like short stories.


John Updike
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
Neil Gaiman
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.


Dan Chaon
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.


Helen Dunmore
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
Nell Freudenberger
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It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.
Tim Pratt
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
Nancy Kress
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I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
Sarah Hall
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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
Daniel Woodrell
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Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
Norman Jewison
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Morley Callaghan
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I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.
Sara Shepard
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Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
Holly Black
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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
Otto Penzler
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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
Sarah Dessen
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I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.


Niels Arden Oplev
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Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack Obama
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Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.


Bobby Bowden
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
Martin Fleischmann