A short story is simplification to the highest degree
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
I write short stories. I write every day.
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.
