Length Quote by Darynda Jones

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

— Marion Dane Bauer

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

— Lord Byron

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

— Lynne Tillman

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description.…

— Brad Thor

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

— Christopher Bollen

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best…

— Damien Chazelle

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

— John Crowley

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 think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

— Ashley Williams

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all…

— John Lancaster Spalding

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

— Nancy Kress