Quotes on Writing Short Stories

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

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

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.