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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
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
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