Peter Orner Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• 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.

  Peter Orner

  Novel, Short Story, Guts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and maybe more powerfully. I think that's true in a lot of cases, most long-term relationships compared to some of the briefer ones - the intensity of those brief ones that end, I think a short story is kind of like that. There's a certain level of intensity that I think is different.

  Peter Orner

  Thinking, Long, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

  Peter Orner

  Trying, Mystery, Novel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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