Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

A novel is not a rant.

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

I'm excited to bring my characters to life in book form.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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 love writing shorter fiction.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

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 like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

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

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'