Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

I love writing shorter fiction.

I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

I like short stories.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

I'm looking to find good stories, not big commercial pieces of work.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.