#short story

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

— Tobias Wolff

#read #reader #really #short #short story

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

— Daphne du Maurier

#love #men #novel #short #short story

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

— Richard Russo

#envisioned #held #i #i think #mind

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

#awake #aware #come #i #just

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

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. ↗

— David Friedman

#based #called #christmas #different #good

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

— Neil Gaiman

#art form #deserve #form #i #i think

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

#also #brother #glory #i #i think

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. ↗

— George Murray

#just #novel #occasional #once #poked

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#deal #entire #i #like #movie