Books Quote by Molly Antopol

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get…

— Debra Dean

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 think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually…

— Debra Dean

My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.

— Chloe Benjamin

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but…

— Ian Rankin

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

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 have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin

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

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

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

— Sarah Zettel