If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William FaulknerWe could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
William FaulknerYes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.
William Faulkner