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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

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

I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.