Analyze Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in…

— Sandra Cisneros

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality…

— John L'Heureux

The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

— Kevin Barry

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.

— David Means

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

— Mavis Gallant

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

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

A long story is just a short story that no one wants to tell.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other…

— Henry James

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

— Stephen King