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

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

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.

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.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.