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People Don't Understand How Hard It Is To Get Recognized, How Hard It Is To Get People To Read Your Books. How Hard It Is To Get People To Even To Understand What They're Reading When They're Talking To You About Their Books.

These Short Stories Are Vast Structures Existing Mostly In The Subconscious Of Our Cultural History. They Will Live With The Reader Long After The Words Have Been Translated Into Ideas And Dreams. That's Because A Good Short Story Crosses The Borders Of Our Nations And Our Prejudices And Our Beliefs. A Good Short Story Asks A Question That Can't Be Answered In Simple Terms. And Even If We Come Up With Some Understanding, Years Later, While Glancing Out Of A Window, The Story Still Has The Potential To Return, To Alter Right There In Our Mind And Change Everything.

Chirren [children] Is The Most Dangerous Creatures On The Earth, With The Exception Of Young Girls Between The Ages Of Fifteen And Forty-two.

The Job Of The Writer Is To Take A Close And Uncomfortable Look At The World They Inhabit, The World We All Inhabit, And The Job Of The Novel Is To Make The Corpse Stink.

The Way I Write Is This: I Write About A Thousand Words A Day, A Little Bit More. The Next Morning, I Read Those Thousand Words And Cursorily Edit That. Then I Write The Next Thousand. I Do That All The Way To The End Of The Book And Then I Reread The Book Quite A Few Times, Editing As Go Through.