“The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as ...” — Laura van den Berg Quote

“The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.”

“As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.”

“In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a moratorium on child narrators. Students love to write them, but children come laden with complications.”

“A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.”

“Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.”

“I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.”