Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
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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.Tobias Wolff
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
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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.
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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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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
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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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