Enjoy Quote by Junot Diaz

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

— George Saunders

I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry…

— Steve Almond

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the…

— Isobelle Carmody

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

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

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to.…

— Lorin Stein

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short…

— Laurel Nakadate

Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

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

— Elizabeth Moon

I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it. A novel…

— Francisco Goldman

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter