Always Quote by Eric Brown

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled…

— Irwin Shaw

When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and…

— Daniel Quinn

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds…

— Donald E. Westlake

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

I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.

— Mark Kurlansky

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest…

— 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

Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more…

— Angela Ahrendts

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

— David Means

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template…

— Lorin Stein