Bad writing Quote by Edna Ferber

I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.

— David Means

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

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

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

My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.

— Dutee Chand

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

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

— Robert Sheckley

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable…

— Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

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

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it;…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in…

— Sandra Cisneros