While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

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