Books Quote by Dan Chaon

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

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

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right…

— Julian Barnes

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

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

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually…

— Debra Dean

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

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks…

— Eric Brown

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of…

— Jasper Fforde

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

— William Gibson

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey the rules of progression for novels.…

— Alice Munro