Appreciate Quote by Gary Saul Morson

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one…

— David Means

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…

— Ron Rash

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not…

— Sally Rooney

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 more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but…

— Ian Rankin

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

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short…

— Junot Diaz

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

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

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

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

— Maggie Shipstead