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Top 20 topics
containing "short":
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| | Mario Batali |  | 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. |
| | Eric Brown | | The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. |
| | Eric Brown | | Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. |
| | John Cheever | | A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. |
| | Jonathan Coe | | 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. |
| | John Dalton | | Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel. |
| | Kazuo Ishiguro | | If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. |
| | Harold Ross | | I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. |
| | Marguerite Young | | Of the contemporaries, I read Toni Morrison's work and the short stories of Cynthia Ozick. I believe that Ozick, like me, has been influenced by William James... I admire T. S. Eliot, though he did not influence me as people like to think. |
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