Any Quote by James Lasdun

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks…

— Eric Brown

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right…

— Julian Barnes

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you…

— Samantha Morton

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

— Matthew Healy

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy…

— Maggie Shipstead

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 mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

— Ruskin Bond

I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on…

— Markus Zusak

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

— Conor Oberst

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

— William Gibson