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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — Ray Bradbury

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey

NOVEL, n. A short story padded — Ambrose Bierce

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY ... SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY ... — Muffin

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. — Daphne Du Maurier

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. — Manuel Puig

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels. — Nell Freudenberger

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. — Lorrie Moore

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

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout. — Julio Cortazar

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading. — R.A. Lafferty

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende

Life is too short to be spent doing just one thing! — Radkris

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. — Amy Bloom

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel. — Alice Munro

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. — George Saunders

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. — Darin Strauss

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. — Ayelet Waldman

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan

A failed short story is a few weeks of fruitless work; a failed novel is a dead child. — The New York Writers Workshop

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short. — Ellen Glasgow

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. — George Stephen

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. — Roddy Doyle

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage. — Erica Jong

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller