There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. He says, "The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love … - Peter Orner

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Peter Orner

There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. He says, "The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living. " That scene has always been something that I have held dear. When something happens, the first thing you want to do is tell it. That's almost more exciting. It's almost simultaneous with the experience; you are already telling something incredible while it's happening. The stories that everybody carries around and repeats, I am really interested in that.

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What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

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My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss any mistakes, and I didn't know who had written some of these stories. I really didn't. I am a different person now. It's weird. I think if stories are good, they have to have a life of their own that's independent of the writer. I like to think of my characters out there in other peoples' heads. That's a nice thing to think about.

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Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

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A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

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I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

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