Fiction Quote by Sean Durkin

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

— William Gibson

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

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

— Kelly Link

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

— Robertson Davies

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…

— Ron Rash

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing…

— Junot Diaz

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

— Philip K. Dick

I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories. I sometimes…

— Jack Driscoll

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

“ … The best pieces in [Queeries] - such as … Raymond John Woolfrey’s “Pages from My Window: Red Geraniums” - are more traditional…

— John Woolfrey