I‘m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com (via peterwknox)
What complete hogwash. What a prickish, idiotic thing to say. Eat me, Mr. McCarthy. Andre Dubus had it right: “I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.”
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