“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.” AbilityFictionNovelReaderMediumsNarrativeI've LearnedLengthLacking Author:Ron Rash
“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!” KnowsWayWritingPersonsDoneMomentsTruthLyingDesireSpeakDealsEmotionFictionEventsDetailsLengthPeculiarPacksInventingFiction WritersDevious Book:The Left Hand of Darkness Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.” WritingChildrenLiteratureFictionFourNeededComfortableLegsGenreHeightChairsLength Author:Mark Haddon
“If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.” IfsCharacterFictionLengthAssociationSolitaryWithdrawal Book:The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography
“In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.” ThinkingWritingPersonsBookFeelingsTermFictionTreasureLengthFiction Writers Author:Lauren Groff
“The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.” FeelsKindIdeasStoriesNaturalFictionSituationEncountersProseLengthShort Story Author:Nicholas Royle