Books Quote by George Saunders

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

— George Murray

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 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

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of the year,…

— Ksenia Anske

My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.

— Dutee Chand

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for…

— R. A. Lafferty

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 have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never…

— Henry Rollins