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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

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.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

You become a great writer by writing.

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

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

I'm a good storyteller.