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A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
