I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

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You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

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One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

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Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

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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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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

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