Insightful Quote by Isobelle Carmody

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

— Edith Wharton

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

— V.S. Pritchett

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

— Neil Gaiman

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

— Dan Chaon

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

— Lord Byron

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

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in…

— Morley Callaghan

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

— Neil Gaiman

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from…

— Emma Donoghue

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories…

— Limmy