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Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

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.

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.