Accepted Quote by Daniel Quinn

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell…

— Eric Brown

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

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until…

— Alice Munro

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

— Robert Sheckley

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short…

— Junot Diaz

“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could take years…

— Joseph Harold Bunting

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the…

— Anonymous

I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.

— Mark Kurlansky

As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a…

— Benjamin Percy