For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Im always trolling for trivia.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.