Books Quote by Sandra Cisneros

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into…

— Annie Dillard

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

— Eliot Porter

In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of…

— Alastair Reynolds

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

— Bruce Feiler

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best…

— Damien Chazelle

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

— George R. R. Martin

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 would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I cannae be…

— Limmy

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

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that…

— Neal Stephenson

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written…

— Susan Glaspell