Dark Quote by Stephen King

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

— Stephen King

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

— Stephen King

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

— Lorrie Moore

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

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

A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and maybe more…

— Peter Orner

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

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

— David Means

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

— John L'Heureux

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