Art Quote by Alice Munro

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

— Neil Gaiman

There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.

— Paul Sparks

I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the…

— Lucy Corin

The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving…

— V. S. Pritchett

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who…

— Marc Platt

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

— Edith Wharton

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

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