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I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. — Charles Baxter

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

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly

Curiously, there are many perfect short stories, but no perfect novels. — J.G. Ballard

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven

The algorithms in his hard drive scrambled and his coding short-circuited. Like she'd downloaded a virus right into his system, he got feverishly hot. — Kelly Moran

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

Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels... — Deyth Banger

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

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels. — Christopher Bram

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. — Ayshay

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories. — Jane Lindskold

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write. — Roger Zelazny

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

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels. — Greg Rucka

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. — Jonathan Coe

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst

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

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women. — Colm Toibin

Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture. — John Hopkins

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do. — Robin Hobb

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. — Neil Gaiman

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that. — John Hopkins

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. — Elizabeth McCracken

Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop. — John Hopkins

My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works. — Gabrielle Zevin

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R R Martin

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom. — Marie Brennan

We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones. — Meg Wolitzer

Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth. — John Hopkins

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

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

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin