Books Quote by Dan Chaon

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this…

— Dan Chaon

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

— Dan Chaon

A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and maybe more…

— Peter Orner

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 love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

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

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

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 first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to…

— Eudora Welty

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind…

— Aimee Bender

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are…

— Jonathan Carroll