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

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

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

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

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

I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.