Boundaries Quote by George Saunders

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing…

— Junot Diaz

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to.…

— Lorin Stein

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 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

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

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

— Ken Liu

I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like…

— Wells Tower

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

— Tom Bailey

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre…

— Junot Diaz