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Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
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.
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
