#short story

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ↗

— Eric Brown

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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. ↗

— Leslie Banks

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

— Tobias Wolff

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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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