Short stories Quote by Stella Gibbons

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“Flannery O'Connor ... points out that 'a story really isn't good unless it successfully resists paraphrase. ...' ... Paraphrasing can force us into deeper…

— Karen Salyer McElmurray

Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the…

— John Daly

“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took…

— Melanie Fair

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

“What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he—or better yet, *she*—watches more…

— Dean Hughes

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

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories…

— John S. Savage

“We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible.”

— Stephen Apkon

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster