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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.

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

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.

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

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

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 know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.