Books Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

“Some love stories remains incomplete and then we complete them by giving a form of novel”

— Pulkit Gupta

“I've always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a book of…

— Michael Faudet

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more…

— Haruki Murakami

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

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

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

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

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”

— Christopher Bram

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