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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.