Advantage Quote by Zadie Smith

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word.…

— Jonathan Tropper

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have…

— Per Petterson

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

— Simon Beaufoy

Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and wikis to…

— Ken Liu

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

— Andre Dubus

Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a novel would…

— Harry Enfield

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry