Art Quote by Samuel R. Delany

“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”

— Amaya Ellman

“All short stories long.”

— Ali Smith

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and…

— Andre Dubus

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

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

— Christopher Bram

“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.”

— Andrew Barger

“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories tend to…

— Ali Smith

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more…

— Haruki Murakami

“Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“I am content when writing short stories.”

— Sarah Mazucci

The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of…

— Lauren Groff