Awake Quote by George Saunders

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

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

— Mavis Gallant

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the…

— Karin Tidbeck

I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center…

— Valeria Luiselli

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

— Lorrie Moore

“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side…

— Neil Gaiman

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

— Brian McGinn

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in…

— Stephen King

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper…

— Duncan Smith

“The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in…

— Ray Rhamey