Book Quote by Namita Gokhale

“This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.”

— Namita Gokhale

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 great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

“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

“I love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like typing “The…

— Marcus Sakey

“My stories may 'lack' the overall sparkly finish, but I enjoy writing them and publishing them. Not every book is perfect not even from…

— laurie bowler

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more…

— Haruki Murakami

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and…

— Andre Dubus

“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who…

— Monica Wood

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