Fiction Quote by Nancy Kress

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it…

— James Patterson

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a…

— V. S. Pritchett

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

— Tom Bailey

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is…

— George Saunders

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