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#short story

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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.


Ang Lee


#close #could #couple #first #function

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.


George Murray


#just #novel #occasional #once #poked

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.


Tobias Wolff


#first #order #pulling #really #short

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

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.


George Saunders


#i #lot #novel #now #paragraph

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.


Neil Gaiman


#generation #kind #length #like #our






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