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“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories tend to…

— Ali Smith

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create…

— Junot Diaz

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

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the…

— Joseph O'Connor

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of…

— Karen Armstrong

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until…

— Alice Munro

I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the…

— Murasaki Shikibu

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give…

— Elizabeth Bowen

... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong