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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.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

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

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.