I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
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It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
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 consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.
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.
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.