Affair Quote by Jonathan Carroll

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

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much…

— Neil Gaiman

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started…

— Andrea Barrett

I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone…

— T.C. Boyle

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

— Lynn Abbey

I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your…

— Etgar Keret

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

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think…

— Jess Walter

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few…

— Edna Ferber

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know…

— Wes Anderson

I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over…

— Debra Dean