Half Quote by Alice Lowe

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 try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

— Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

— Eliot Porter

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

— Bruce Feiler

There's only so many ways to tell a story before the story gets boring.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort…

— Travis Beacham

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

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor