410 Quotes About Short-story

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful thing to get to have in a story. And in a movie, it's amazing, because you actually get to show things.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.