Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.

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

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

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.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of like an apprenticeship. And in lots of ways, it's a far harder form.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I like going back and writing fiction.

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

I like short stories.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.