Reading Quote by Stephen King

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

— Stephen King

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

— Andrew Barger

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

“All short stories long.”

— Ali Smith

“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

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

— Christopher Bram

“The shortest distance between two people is a story.”

— Patti Digh

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

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

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the…

— Henry Seidel Canby

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

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

— David Mikics