Early Quote by Susan Choi

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

— Elizabeth Moon

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

— William Gibson

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a…

— David Grann

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

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

— Angela Cartwright

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

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

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so…

— Charles M. Blow

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

— Irwin Shaw

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

— Elizabeth Moon