After Quote by Kevin Barry

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Jill McCorkle

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who…

— Karin Tidbeck

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories,…

— Amor Towles

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

— Liu Cixin