I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

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