Character Quote by Nell Freudenberger

My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.

— Chloe Benjamin

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

— Hillary Clinton

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just…

— Molly Antopol

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I…

— Carol Windley

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in…

— Cathleen Schine

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

— David Means

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

“Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

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

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin