"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
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"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."