Fiction Quote by Marlon James

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

— Alice Munro

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

— Sara Sheridan

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are…

— Aleksandar Hemon

we lived in the gaps between the stories

— Margaret Atwood

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one…

— David Means

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

— Arthur Smith

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

— Laurie R. King

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

— Justine Larbalestier