Believe Quote by M. K. Hobson

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of…

— Jasper Fforde

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started…

— Andrea Barrett

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson

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

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me…

— Nell Freudenberger

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

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

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

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do…

— Dani Shapiro