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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

I've been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want? — Chayada Welljaipet

After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.
(Red 2008 Film) — Deyth Banger

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

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride

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 read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. — Lynn Abbey

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

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

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

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down." — Mitchell Hurwitz

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35 — Amos Oz

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie. — Louis Garrel

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. — Fran Lebowitz

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance. — Joseph O'Connor

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form. — Henry James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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