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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

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 story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

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.

I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.