In the small town of Tirunelveli, where everything arrived…

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come…

— Will Eisner

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…

— Wole Soyinka

“Hmmm,” you muse out loud. Your voice is deep and carnal, a sound which sends new surges of desire rushing to my sex. “These…

— Felicity Brandon

“You hold in your hands a very special book. It contains one hundred carnival rides of terror. You must remember: horror can come from…

— Martin H. Greenberg

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot…

— Yiyun Li

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template…

— Lorin Stein

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

— Tom Bissell

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

— Nallasivan V

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

— Daphne du Maurier

“He admired bears because everyone was afraid to disturb them while they slept and fish were so in love with bears that they jumper…

— Robb Todd

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their…

— Mariella Frostrup

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a…

— Sefi Atta