#short stories

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#film #i #i can #i think #just

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#actor #always #amount #because #certain

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. ↗

— George Stephen

#horror #i #just #many #novel

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance. ↗

— George Stephen

#cemetery #dance #dependent #despite #fact

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#dollars #first #five #i #newspaper

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

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#did #done #eliminate #four #good

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#books #i #into #keeping #novels

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#assignment #become #being #creative #drawing