Mind Quote by Richard Russo

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in…

— Sandra Cisneros

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

— Neil Gaiman

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality…

— John L'Heureux

“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

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few…

— Amy Bloom

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

— Mavis Gallant

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to…

— Nicholas Royle

“on short stories: something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.”

— V.S. Pritchett