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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

— Neil Gaiman

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”

— Christopher Bram

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

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

— Jeffrey Archer

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the…

— Henry Seidel Canby

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until…

— Alice Munro

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the…

— Joseph O'Connor

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is…

— Howard Nemerov

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble for it;…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward