#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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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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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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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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