Behind Quote by Joanna Scott

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

— Gillian Flynn

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

— Sara Sheridan

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

— Michael Connelly

There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion.…

— Mavis Gallant

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green