Books Quote by Robert Crumb

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings.…

— Ted Naifeh

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've been taking longer to write stories lately.

— Greg Egan

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for…

— R. A. Lafferty

I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the…

— Zara Cox

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled…

— Michael Lewis

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro