Department Quote by Walter Kirn

The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to…

— Charles de Lint

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

— Ken Liu

“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could take years…

— Joseph Harold Bunting

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

— Dan Chaon

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 write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

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

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are…

— Lorin Stein

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

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short…

— Junot Diaz

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

— Lynne Ramsay

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