Graham Swift: 'As human beings we're all short-story enthusiasts'

[Dave Monroe]

"It’s being said that short stories are making a comeback. Though I
have to confess to a 30-year lapse from writing them, I don’t think
the short story as a form ever went away. It has its solid tradition,
its classic exponents, just as the novel does. In fact, long before
there were things called novels there were short stories – the tales
we all tell each other. As human beings we’re all short-story
enthusiasts. It’s the novel that’s the oddity."

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/07/graham-swift-short-stories-paperback-writer
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