Amount Quote by Orson Scott Card

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

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

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

I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.

— David Means

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

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but…

— Ian Rankin

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,…

— Lynn Abbey

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few…

— Edna Ferber

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could take years…

— Joseph Harold Bunting

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle