Approach Quote by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

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

The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human…

— Lin Yutang

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

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

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality…

— John L'Heureux

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

— Kanika Dhillon

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

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

Writing the short story is essentially an act of grace. It's not a matter of will so much as trust. I try to let…

— Paulette Alden

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel…

— Howard Shore

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real…

— Zadie Smith

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the holes on…

— Anu Lal