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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there's wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.