Beautiful writing Quote by V. S. Pritchett

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short…

— Orson Scott Card

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

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

— David Means

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

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

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

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

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 is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

— Kevin Barry

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable…

— Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien