Alter Quote by Amy Bloom

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver…

— Zadie Smith

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

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-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,…

— Lynn Abbey

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

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

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side…

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

“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

“on short stories: something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.”

— V.S. Pritchett