“I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.” NovelTerribleHopefulShort StoryEssays Author:Samantha Hunt
“My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.” FatherLanguageNovelBrokenMy FavoriteShort Story Author:Samantha Hunt
“In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.” WritingSilenceNovelSilentShort Story Author:Samantha Hunt