Book Quote by Theodora Goss

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never…

— Henry Rollins

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

— Colm Toibin

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

— Ann Beattie

My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make it clear…

— Chevy Stevens

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in…

— Jorge Luis Borges

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time…

— Antony Beevor

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver…

— Zadie Smith

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as…

— Lynn Abbey

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about

— Gay Talese