Belief Quote by Dr. Seuss

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk…

— Lynn Coady

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables…

— Mohsin Hamid

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

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

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

“Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject…

— Piers Anthony

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big,…

— Larry Winget

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of…

— Samantha Hunt