Been Quote by George Stephen

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I…

— Hooman Majd

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

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger…

— Janis Ian

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

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've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

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

— William Gibson

If nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to do anything…

— Stan Lee

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon