Boil Quote by Colum McCann

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

— Richard Russo

I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one for ages…

— Colum McCann

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“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

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was…

— Molly Antopol

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

— Mavis Gallant

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

— Neil Gaiman

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.”

— Adam Leith Gollner

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering…

— William H. Gass

You need a story to displace a story.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb