#short story

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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

— 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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