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V S Pritchett | 'Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the ...
'Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.'
‘People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.'