Built 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…

— Dan Chaon

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

— Dennis Covington

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his…

— E. Lockhart

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…

— Wole Soyinka

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for…

— Conrad Aiken

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

— Judith Guest

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any…

— Frank Deford

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template…

— Lorin Stein

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself…

— Karin Tidbeck