Believe Quote by Tobias Wolff

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not…

— Sally Rooney

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a…

— James Lasdun

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being.…

— Gina Berriault

The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the…

— Lucy Corin

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

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

— Jorge Luis Borges

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car,…

— Robert Harris

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested…

— C.D. Wright

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy