"…People who know about these things say that the short story is the most challenging form, much more so than the novel, because of the precision required; sometimes you have to achieve as much as a novel in a much shorter space and period of time. Had I known that it was the most difficult of forms, I probably would not have started with the short story…"
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On short stories versus novels in “Rohinton Mistry: 'Family Matters,' and Literary Ones” in Asia Society (2002 Nov 1)
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