Achieve Quote by Junot Diaz

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend…

— Porochista Khakpour

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

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

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

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom…

— Michelle Gagnon

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

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