Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.Tobias Wolff
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
Tobias Wolff
So you're continually searching for new ways of using the story form to most perfectly contain and express the story you're telling.
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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
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Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
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