“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.”
William Saroyan
“Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.”
Daphne Du Maurier
“Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.”
Eric Brown
“the judges felt the level of the short-listed novels was as high as it can ever have been.”
John Sutherland
“It's one of the classic works of this period. The novel itself stands up on its own, and as a result of that, you're going to have a great deal of material as an offspring.”
Danny Glover
“I had written about a half-dozen short stories, and they started to feel more like part of one novel.”
Barbara Grosh
“All I want is my own way in everything”
