Asks Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

— Walter Kirn

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

— James Patterson

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic…

— Ben Bova

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the…

— Henry Seidel Canby

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

— Edith Wharton

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

— Edwin Boring

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the…

— William Golding

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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