Length Quote by Randall Jarrell

“This is not at all bad, except as prose.”

— Gore Vidal

“Good prose is solitary work.”

— Christopher Bram

“Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.”

— Scott Gates

“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue.”

— Francis Grierson

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

“The problem with writing, is that it doesn't leave you time to read. ”

— Corey Salter

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I…

— Truman Capote

“For life is short and the art of writing books is very, very long.”

— James Geary

“Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.”

— Robert Galbraith