I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...