Short story Quotes

I write short stories. I write every day.

— Isaiah Mustafa

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

— John Cheever

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

— Henry Seidel Canby

“Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.”

— Rabbi Sipporah Joseph

“Read a short story every day.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A long story is just a short story that no one wants to tell.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”

— Robin Black

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

— Neil Gaiman

“She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.”

— Laura Furman

“You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters. - Seamus Tierney”

— Libby Bishop

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

— Jennifer Weiner

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

— Tobias Wolff

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

— Andre Dubus

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I…

— Nicholas Royle

What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of…

— Kevin Barry

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would…

— Richard K. Morgan

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short…

— Alfonso Cuaron

So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.…

— Lorin Stein

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you…

— Zack Love

“The driver watched the young female figure approach within his rearview mirror, unable to discern more than superficial characteristics. As she grew…

— R.J. Lawrence

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories…

— Don DeLillo

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's…

— Daniel Radcliffe

We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met…

— Susan Sarandon

I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who…

— George R. R. Martin

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading…

— Tess Gerritsen

The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight…

— Lin Yutang

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six…

— Lucinda Williams

“By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out…

— Guy de Maupassant

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit…

— Raymond Carver

In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“My old man 16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing– shorts, shirts, stockings– suitcase, and…

— Charles Bukowski

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long…

— Walter Mosley

“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part…

— Raymond Carver

“In a sense, each one of us was facing forces that were far bigger than us, forces that we barely understood. My…

— Nallasivan V

“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart.…

— Raji Singh