“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”

“Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.”

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”