College Quote by Mark Kurlansky

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

— Colson Whitehead

In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a…

— Gabriel Campisi

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

— Charles Baxter

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I…

— Hooman Majd

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest…

— Anthony Doerr

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

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

— William Gibson

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled…

— Irwin Shaw

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

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy…

— Dee Rees