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

- Lorrie Moore

“For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.” 
 

-Eudora Welty, On Writing

"The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies and buy it lunch."

- R.Z. Sheppard