Big idea Quote by Alastair Reynolds

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

— Bruce Feiler

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

— Eliot Porter

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing…

— Sandra Cisneros

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a…

— V. S. Pritchett

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never…

— Henry Rollins

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short…

— Orson Scott Card

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

— Joseph Campbell

“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories tend to…

— Ali Smith

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

— Mick Jones

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

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

— Nicholas Royle