#short story

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ↗

— Alice Munro

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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

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When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world. ↗

— George Saunders

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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

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You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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