Books Quote by Roddy Doyle

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

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

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two,…

— Lynn Abbey

I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return…

— James Clavell

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables…

— Mohsin Hamid

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short…

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Maggie Shipstead

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories tend to…

— Ali Smith