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I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

— Carrie Brownstein

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short…

— Laurel Nakadate

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

— Hope Jahren

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

— Bill Cosby

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

— Derrick Bell

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader…

— Susan Cheever

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

— Jacqueline Woodson

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she…

— Hilary Mantel

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes…

— Molly Antopol

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers…

— Kirsten Prout

Like most authors, I also love to read.

— Aprilynne Pike