Buttons Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped…

— Susan Choi

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

— Ken Liu

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

— George Saunders

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

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

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

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger…

— Janis Ian