Books Quote by Anonymous

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short…

— Junot Diaz

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

— L.P. Hartley

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

— Chad Harbach

For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same…

— Ben Dolnick

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest…

— Anthony Doerr

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.

— Andrew Shaffer

I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry…

— Steve Almond

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.

— Mark Kurlansky

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater