A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Lynn Abbey
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
Lynn Abbey
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
Irwin Shaw
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