it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.