Brevity Quote by Ali Smith

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

— Tobias Wolff

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and…

— Andre Dubus

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create…

— Junot Diaz

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

I like short stories.

— John Updike

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

— Annie Proulx

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

— Judith Guest

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think…

— Aleksandar Hemon