Attention Quote by Junot Diaz

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

A short story collection can be as exciting as a novel. It is a real complete experience, like when you listen to a real…

— David Means

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

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

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this…

— Dan Chaon

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

“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could take years…

— Joseph Harold Bunting

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one…

— David Means

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't…

— Alice Munro

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been…

— Gary Saul Morson

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

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy