Books Quote by Alice Munro

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one…

— David Means

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the…

— Isobelle Carmody

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into…

— Zoe Foster Blake

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the…

— Dan Chaon

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,…

— Lynn Abbey

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson