Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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Story Writers
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"To survive, you must tell stories."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences."
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"Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story."
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"The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space."
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"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever"
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