I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

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