Learning Quote by Sally Rooney

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me…

— Tobias Wolff

The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as…

— Robert Scholes

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

“Poetry vs. Prose One difference of course is the length of the line. And some people suppose that prose doesn’t rhyme. But I have…

— Daniel Klawitter

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks…

— Eric Brown

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

— Jonathan Carroll

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

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a…

— V. S. Pritchett

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

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right…

— Julian Barnes

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think…

— Aleksandar Hemon