Book Quote by Elizabeth Moon

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

— William Gibson

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

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

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped…

— Susan Choi

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

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

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

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 wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

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