American Quote by David Means

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

— Tobias Wolff

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much…

— Neil Gaiman

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the…

— Walter Mosley

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story…

— Laura van den Berg

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but…

— Ian Rankin

The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

— Kevin Barry

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of…

— Bret Harte

If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months,…

— Laura van den Berg

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 have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin