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I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.


Catherine Ryan Hyde

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LYNN ABBEY I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte...
JASPER FFORDE I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ...
BRUCE COVILLE Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
ANON. I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all...
SATYAJIT RAY I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd li...
JANIS IAN A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a f...
LORRIE MOORE With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end o...
GRAHAM GREENE I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third p...
TAMORA PIERCE I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se...
WOLE SOYINKA I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little...
JAMES ROLLINS I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories...
MELISSA PETERMAN I certainly love writing books. I've always written short stories and novels, because in prose, you ...
MARIA HEADLEY A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
LYNN ABBEY I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoy...
GEOFF JOHNS And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.
JENA MALONE My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five ...
THEODORE STURGEON My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURY A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/1...
JEFF LEMIRE We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there ...
JUNOT DíAZ I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' com...
ANDY BIERSACK I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and scre...
BLAKE JENNER I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe...
ANDREA BARRETT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things...
TOBIAS WOLFF With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w...
IRVIN D. YALOM I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ...
KARRINE STEFFANS I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d...
ARIJIT SINGH I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff th...
ERROL MORRIS I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
OTTO PENZLER 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 haven't been doin' much comic book writing for the last several years though, as I've been writing...
BILL MUMY I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
OLIVIA D'ABO I've been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
AMY BLOOM I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of &#...
KEN LIU I had written about a half-dozen short stories, and they started to feel more like part of one novel...
BARBARA GROSH I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every bo...
CHARLAINE HARRIS As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenag...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very h...
ERIC BROWN I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
KAGE BAKER I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
EMMA DONOGHUE I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for...
CANDACE BUSHNELL When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found...
MICHAEL POLLAN I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It w...
NEIL GAIMAN It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally wri...
TIM PRATT I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ...
PATRICK CARMAN I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
CHRIS WOOD I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been ...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT I write short stories. I write every day.
ISAIAH MUSTAFA I've always been entranced by writing.
MARV LEVY I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I hav...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ...
JESS WALTER I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd b...
BERNIE LEADON Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time......
VICTORIA AVEYARD I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was...
DULQUER SALMAAN I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th...
ELLEN POTTER Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the cra...
JOHN DALTON I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Aust...
AMY BLOOM Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard,...
ERIC BROWN I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got...
ZOE LISTER-JONES For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban li...
WILLIAM H. GASS Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ...
OLIVIA D'ABO The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don...
TAIYE SELASI I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've a...
CHARLES MCCARRY In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie...
DAVID SHIELDS A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing ...
SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of ...
J. A. JANCE I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil...
GORDON PARKS It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Joh...
CAROL WINDLEY I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,...
GEORGE SAUNDERS My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been i...
TY BURRELL I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
JIMMY WALKER I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nons...
GARTH NIX Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardco...
JEFF LINDSAY The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and ...
JAMES PLATH But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would...
PATRICIA CORNWELL People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tenden...
JOHN MALKOVICH It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a m...
MAYA ANGELOU I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmit...
KARIN SLAUGHTER After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in ...
CHRIS PAVONE Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
JAMIE DORNAN Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far l...
CLIVE SINCLAIR I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant peopl...
M. J. ROSE But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s...
JONATHAN COE As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and ...
TODD CRAWSHAW I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I h...
MARY LAMBERT Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I ...
KEN LIU In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to i...
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DR. MEREDITH HYDE We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do y...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was abl...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's hous...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for mor...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shou...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to wat...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an ex...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.
CATHERINE OPIE How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because ...
CATHERINE TATE It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as i...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
CATHERINE DENEUVE Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone el...
CATHERINE O'HARA I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then som...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention...
CATHERINE PONDER If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
CATHERINE PONDER I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a to...
CATHERINE CRIER Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather...
CATHERINE LACEY The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
CATHERINE PONDER We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
CATHERINE BOOTH When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional l...
CATHERINE PONDER I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
CATHERINE DENEUVE