Books Quote by Lynn Abbey Download Open image “For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.” — Lynn Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Harder Novel Short story Writing
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 Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
