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I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
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.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
