Essays Quote by Christine Sneed

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

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 consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

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

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

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to…

— Ayana Mathis

I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very…

— Stephen King

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens