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I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get…

— Debra Dean

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

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 did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some…

— Nicholas Mosley

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

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 decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the…

— Lucy Corin

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually…

— Debra Dean

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

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to…

— Ayana Mathis

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

— Jeffery Deaver

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