Be good Quote by Neil Gaiman

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

— Neil Gaiman

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to…

— Kate Atkinson

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else.…

— Tad Williams

The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written…

— James A. Michener

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers…

— Joy Fielding

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story…

— Ben Okri

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

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing…

— Garth Nix

I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to…

— George R. R. Martin

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

— C. S. Forester

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