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There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories fr...
BRIAN DOYLE 'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing...
LISA LUTZ I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little...
JAMES ROLLINS I would say mystery is probably the favorite.
BETH SCHWIER I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.
SHAUN CASSIDY
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You ... ZADIE SMITH
Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would c... G.K. CHESTERTON
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I ... HARUKI MURAKAMI All the people named Dan Kaufman who I find online seem to be short, balding Jewish men with glasses...
DAN KAUFMAN I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, storie...
WILLIAM LASHNER As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put the...
PETE HAMILL I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se...
D. J. MACHALE We had a lot of people coming up to us saying, 'Great movie. Would have bought it, but Mystery Men '...
CRAIG MAZIN But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s...
JONATHAN COE
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would s... SPIRO T. AGNEW I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would s...
SPIRO AGNEW
All the prime ministers have built the settlement blocs, but I built more than all of them, ... Sett... ARIEL SHARON I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help...
SABRINA CARPENTER
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... BRUCE COVILLE I guess some guys are just naturally built for comfort rather than cricket.
BOB WILLIS
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho... LYNN ABBEY
Trinity Sunday I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy ... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS We'll have a PDA (personal digital assistant) and cell phone for different uses and they should have...
GEORGE HOFFMAN At this point we don't have evidence that would link them, but we are looking into that simply becau...
DIANE RICHARDSON
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of... BEN OKRI I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are bran...
CASEY NEISTAT It came together so naturally. The skeleton was built, and all we had to do was put it together.
DANNY SHAFER
Now that he is taunting me, well, all that I would like to say, I want to eliminate all of them, PERVEZ MUSHARRAF I write short stories. I write every day.
ISAIAH MUSTAFA I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all...
SATYAJIT RAY
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the react... RAY BRADBURY
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. JOAN DIDION
Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me... HARUKI MURAKAMI She advised me that my main job would be plotting stories and editing them. I would not have to both...
JULIUS SCHWARTZ
I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many det... KAITLYN DEVER
We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so ma... HAROLD EVANS I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about...
MICHAEL RAPAPORT There were definitely a lot of highs this year. I think winning games that, coming into them, we sho...
CARA HENDRY
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some exte... SPIRO T. AGNEW
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and s... CANDACE BUSHNELL I would say that a huge percentage of them who don't already have automatic enrollment would adopt i...
JACK VANDERHEI
Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I ... KEN LIU
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys... NEIL GAIMAN
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, ... ANDRE DUBUS When I say Dan Wilson is one of the good guys, for me, that's the ultimate compliment. Very few of u...
MIKE HARGROVE Now that it's all said and done I would say that there are certain things that I would have kept exa...
GARRETT WANG We are always looking for more listeners, and are also looking for people who have interesting stori...
WREN ELHAI I would not say I was surprised with the success I had. I have worked hard and I expect to do well. ...
BRIAN FUENTES Life is short, Say it all.
MAHRUKH
I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A se... ERIN MORGENSTERN
I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum ... SPIRO T. AGNEW I'd shout 'Hey Dan! Can I have your sausage?' and he'd nod yes. Then: 'Hey Dan, how about the bacon?...
RICKY HATTON First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by wh...
SARAH HALL
I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess. WILLIAM SHATNER
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. CAROLINE B. COONEY I can't lie and say that I'm sorry that this conclusion happened because I'm not. Dan was very bruta...
TANGEE OVERLY
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, ... EDMUND BURKE Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theate...
JOEL HODGSON Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... JASPER FFORDE I would just say that I would like to be able to be around to see the completion of the projects tha...
LINDSEY HANSEN I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d...
ARIJIT SINGH
I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a po... LYNN JOHNSTON (The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I...
LISANNE SKYLER
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I have stories. But stories are not facts.'
'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the t...
MORGAN RHODES For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st...
LAURA HILLENBRAND With all my Iowa ties, I do my best to watch the game indifferently. But you have to be happy for Da...
BOB STOOPS I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Nort...
DAN CHAON I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three diffe...
DAN CHAON I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also i...
DAN CHAON A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Wh...
DAN CHAON The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
DAN CHAON For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which do...
DAN CHAON People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' new...
DAN CHAON Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life....
DAN CHAON I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stu...
DAN CHAON Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabri...
DAN CHAON The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family...
DAN CHAON Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more t...
DAN CHAON Hesitantly, I touched the stump where my finger used to be. In my mind, something almost remembered ...
DAN CHAON Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that s...
DAN CHAON There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, an...
DAN CHAON Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections...
DAN CHAON I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed real...
DAN CHAON Fraj-ile," I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination ...
DAN CHAON This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - on...
DAN CHAON Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, y...
DAN CHAON In the basement of Sydney's new house is a little room that is about the size and shape of a coffin.
DAN CHAON He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at lea...
DAN CHAON I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same...
DAN CHAON Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual impli...
DAN CHAON I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who...
DAN CHAON You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought w...
DAN CHAON Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of...
DAN CHAON
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. 
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you... 
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so... 
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has chang... 
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We ar... 
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner. 
I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you. 
I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career. 
I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies. 
I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself. 
About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t... 
I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains. 
The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o... 