You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.Tobias Wolff
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
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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.
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A novel invites digression and a little relaxation of the grip because a reader can't endure being held that tightly in hand for so long a time.
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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
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We are made to persist. Thats how we find out who we are.
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