Books Quote by Anne McCaffrey

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

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

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind…

— Aimee Bender

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people…

— Ruth Ware

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.

— Dia Mirza

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser