Affair Quote by Amos Oz

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

— Erica Jong

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

— Jonathan Carroll

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion)…

— Mary Oliver

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me…

— Tobias Wolff

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing…

— May Sarton

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

— Lorrie Moore

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not…

— Sally Rooney

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being.…

— Gina Berriault

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car,…

— Robert Harris