Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
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