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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.

It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.