Atmosphere Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the…

— Isobelle Carmody

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

Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly…

— Chiara Barzini

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to.…

— Lorin Stein

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

— Ken Liu

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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

— Irwin Shaw

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing…

— Junot Diaz

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

— George Saunders

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…

— Ron Rash

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks…

— Eric Brown

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead