Balance Quote by Annie Proulx

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

— Amy Bloom

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

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

— Tobias Wolff

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are…

— Ali Smith

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

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

— Ryan North

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the…

— Henry Seidel Canby

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few…

— Amy Bloom

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun…

— Susan Orlean

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do…

— Alice Munro

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

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin