Bills Quote by James McBride

“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds…

— John Irving

“Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

— Russell Lynes

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are…

— Jonathan Carroll

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

— Flying Lotus

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more…

— Haruki Murakami

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of…

— Dan Rather

“I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.”

— Jason E. Hodges

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write…

— Scott Glenn

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

— Jonathan Carroll

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

— Amaya Ellman

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard