Awareness Quote by Joan Didion

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

— V.S. Pritchett

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 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 a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality…

— John L'Heureux

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

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

— Richard Russo

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

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

“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea to another…

— Lydia Minatoya

“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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

— Isobelle Carmody