Affair Quote by Jonathan Carroll

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

— Lorrie Moore

A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and maybe more…

— Peter Orner

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,…

— Lynn Abbey

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

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

— Lynn Abbey

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

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind…

— Aimee Bender

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

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

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one…

— Amos Oz

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead