Melissa Peterman
Related TANITH LEE I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd li... JANIS IAN I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little... JAMES ROLLINS When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I wo... IAN MARSHALL I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES BRUCE COVILLE PAWAN MISHRA I've been tossing around the idea of a kids game. It would bring in the aunts, uncles, and grandpare... DEREK JOHNSON I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ... DEBORAH EISENBERG ALAIN DE BOTTON FLANNERY O'CONNOR C. JOYBELL C. Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t... CLARK ZLOTCHEW STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY KILROY J. OLDSTER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing. CAMERON DOKEY I do a bit of writing and I have been putting together some songs for maybe a possible release, JASON DONOVAN Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of ... ROBERT MORGAN I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experi... ERIC AVERY it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY HENRY JAMES Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and k... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER CARMEN ELECTRA JOHN SIMON SANHITA BARUAH I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al... TRACY KIDDER STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Calling means so much to me. It's this idea of perception and how the mythology of the universe ... STEPHAN LAWRENCE THEODORE CLIFFORD ALICE MUNRO SARAH J. MAAS MARNE LEVINE SUE MONK KIDD CHAIM POTOK I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the sto... KATHY REICHS JASPER FFORDE To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. DEBORAH EISENBERG AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS IAN MCEWAN ANTHONY MARRA CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE JOYCE RACHELLE PHYLLIS DILLER I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have jus... IRVIN D. YALOM MICHAEL POLLAN CORY DOCTOROW Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care... JAMES ROLLINS In beauty, there's this idea of this perfect picture, and I think, 'How about being present ... EMILY WEISS How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) BARRY EISLER WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ... ROSE FALL ANDREW COHEN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr... STEPHEN CHOBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY WHIT STILLMAN I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at... PAUL PARK PHYLLIS DILLER BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new pe... LINDSAY PRICE STEPHEN CHBOSKY HARUKI MURAKAMI JULIAN BARNES ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES For years I would turn to James Joyce's short story collection, The Dubliners, in the Performance of... FRANK GALATI
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... 
Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in o... 
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised... 
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
I definitely want to be a mom some day, absolutely. But not yet. Maybe in a couple of years. 
Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
To write is to reveal oneself.
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
I felt Facebook had a lot of what I appreciated about government - being around a collection of real... 
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in wr... 
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... 
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... 
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a colle... 
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu... 
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i... 
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Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. 
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap? 
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found... 
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. 
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ... 
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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insec... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... 
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Hodor," said Hodor. 
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My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I ... 
I briefly considered writing it as a non-fiction book but the fact of the matter is that George left... 
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Love is never wrong. 
I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. 
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Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice. 
As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small bus... 
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnesse... 
His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her... 
He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her h... 
As far as I'm concerned, there are two types of people in this world: people like Queeg who, when li... 
She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the ... 
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic... 
An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - ... 
Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizin... 
Bill walked slowly to Cara's dressed and leaned on the edge, folding his arms as the pine creaked un... 
The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxe... 
I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the ... 
For months you've referred to me as your hero, But it's easy to be brave when I have you to come hom... 