No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue..

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter..

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed..

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 be….

To survive, you must tell stories..

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today..

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns….

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in th….

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose ….

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.