Dirt Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

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

I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam.

— Phoebe Robinson

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I love marijuana - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice…

— Rick James

“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.”

— Namita Gokhale

The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death…

— Tom Hardy

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime…

— Megan Abbott

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

— Irwin Shaw

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

— Gary Lutz

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

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

— Christopher Bram