“The ‘novel’ is a publishing convention that deforms the story. If more attention were given to form there would be fewer novels and better stories. There's no reason a publisher can’t put out a story that's a hundred or even seventy pages long. But a publisher will look at a story like that as defective novel, ineligible for shortlists. It should be in a collection. Or pumped full of air, turned into a novel… It's a pity. You see some good writers behaving like performing monkeys.”

"Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson" http://www.mysteryfile.com/Matheson/Interview.html (2004)

(10 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she — the author — should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Hysterical realism
The Irresponsible Self (2004)

The Chinese Novel (1938)

On not wanting to be deemed a woman author (as quoted in “ROSARIO FERRE: THE VANGUARD OF PUERTO RICAN FEMINIST LITERATURE” http://smjegupr.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/19.-Rosario-Ferr---The-Vanguard-of-Puerto-Rican-Feminist-Literature-por-Suzanne-S.-Hintz.pdf)

Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)