After Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an…

— Christine Sneed

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

— Stephen Cole

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

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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 always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels,…

— Ron Rash

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

— Garth Nix