Happiness Quote by Lorin Stein

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

— Lorrie Moore

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

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

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

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks…

— Eric Brown

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

— Ray Bradbury

I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very…

— Stephen King

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are…

— Lorin Stein

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are…

— Ali Smith