About Quote by Richard Bausch

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

— George Murray

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to…

— Ayana Mathis

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is…

— Donna Tartt

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't…

— Alice Munro