Book Quote by Jonathan Coe

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

— George Murray

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

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

— Maggie Shipstead

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are…

— Italo Calvino

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Matthew Healy

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

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