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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

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

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.

It took me a long time to know enough about writing to really write short stories. You can't just immerse yourself, as you do in a novel, and see where everything goes. Novels are a very flexible, accommodating form. Short stories aren't.

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

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

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

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