What's the diference between a novel and a story?

Question

im thinking of writing a story (or novel) depending on the answers.

Answer 1

A novel is a long story. I'm not sure if it has to be a set amount of pages, but the books that are thicker are considered novels.

Answer 2

a novel is a collection of words that some one has written that pertains a story. In other words, a story can doesnt have to be written, however a novel is when one puts it in written format

Answer 3

none, a novel is a story, but I think the term story is used more for children

Answer 4

a novel is a story but about a person or animal. and story can be eney thing a tall tail and epecstors or relaistic fiction  

Answer 5

A novel isn’t a half-dozen short stories with the same characters. The seams invariably show. Why? Because a novel must have integrity. The novel, no matter how dense and wide-ranging it might be, must have a single cumulative effect to please the reader. Every minor climax must point toward the book’s final climax, must promise still better things to come …

“Ideally, a story is an indivisible unit – every sentence in it points to the single climax that fulfills the entire work. One moment in the story controls all the rest. But in a novel, that single climax is replaced by many smaller climaxes, by many side trips or pauses to explore. If you keep shaping everything to point to that one climax, your reader will get sick of it after a hundred pages or so. It will feel monotonous. To keep the reader entertained (i.e., to keep him reading) you must give him many small moments of fulfillment along the way, brief rewards that promise something bigger later

Answer 6

A story is shorter.