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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
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“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
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“Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.”
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“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
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“Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green in its envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in its greatest rages, black.”
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