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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

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys. — Mary Lascelles

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

It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is. — Mark Fripp Character In Come Find Me

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. — Heather Donahue

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm

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

Be the hero of your own story. — Joe Rogan

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

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

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

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

Almost all novels are love stories. — George Sand

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

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

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

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'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter

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

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

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. — Mark Pellegrino

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

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

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

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

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami

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

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

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas

Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific. — George Orwell

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

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

Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru — Haruki Murakami

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth

You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime. — Elize Amornette

Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth. — John Hopkins

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story. — Nicholas Sparks

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

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made. — Ellen J. Barrier

The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions — Elize Amornette

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical. — Stacey D'Erasmo

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original. — Nicholas Sparks

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 more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. — Susan Straight

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself. — Aleksandar Hemon

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 dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

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

Exactly. Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru said. — Haruki Murakami