It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
タグ: unhappiness, happiness

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I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey the rules of progression for novels. I don't think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let's say a chunk of fiction.
タグ: story, more, think, discipline
I had my first baby at twenty-one.
タグ: had, first, baby
Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this. But there's a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
タグ: way, sometimes, time, work
'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.
タグ: editing, serious, new, experience
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
タグ: people, time, me, change
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