My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie SmithI wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie SmithTo a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
Zadie Smith