Story Writers Quotes
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.
Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story no one else does. Believe in your unique steps up the mountain.