Closest Quote by Henry James

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

A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth.…

— St. Lucia

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

“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories tend to…

— Ali Smith

I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the…

— Lucy Corin

The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

— Kevin Barry

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

— Richard Russo

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few…

— Amy Bloom

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

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“on short stories: something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.”

— V.S. Pritchett

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