Neil Gaiman Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Eye, Giving

• A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Heart, Magic

• Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Journey, Other Worlds

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

• Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Elements, Littles

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". TIME interview, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

• As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teenager, Simple, Stories

• The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Thinking, Add

• Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

  Neil Gaiman

  Our Generation, Vampire, Generations

• I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Reality, Novel

  Source: www.gq.com

• There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going to stay with the characters long enough to live your life with them. And you have different kinds of relationships with them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Long, Live Your Life

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Writing, Weekend

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely literary constructs. You know, the young man in "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" - I probably got that right - is a literary construct, and enjoys being a literary construct. He has no life off stage, whereas the young men in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" were as near to being real human beings as I could possibly get them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Real, Party

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Thinking, Stories

• Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Other Worlds, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

• Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Stories, May

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