Books Quote by David Means

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

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been…

— Gary Saul Morson

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

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

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,…

— Lynn Abbey

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

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 really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school…

— M. K. Hobson

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

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me…

— Nell Freudenberger

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