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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.

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.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

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.

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

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

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

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.