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"Reading should be a passion, an escape—when people open a novel they want someone to tell them 'once upon a time.' It transports them. If I can help people forget about their problems, their hardships—even for a few hours—I am very happy." Novelist Dominique Marny expresses her inspiration to write in this video interview, filmed in her home country of France.
"Reading should be a passion, an escape—when people open a novel they want someone to tell them 'once upon a time.' It transports them. If I can help people forget about their problems, their hardships—even for a few hours—I am very happy." Novelist Dominique Marny expresses her inspiration to write in this video interview, filmed in her home country of France.

![Authors on Writing Short Stories
Make every word count. Bring characters to life, quickly. Boil it down to the essentials. Believe in your story. These are some of the challenges that acclaimed short story writers—such as James Jones, Susan Minot, Peter Cameron, David Corbett, Nicola Barker, Bradford Morrow, and Robert McCammon—have faced in their craft. My father [James Jones] said that writing a novel is like having a terrible illness with a sort of low-grade fever that lasts and lasts and lasts . . . and that writing a short story is more like having a terrible flu but only for five days, says Kaylie Jones. Discover more about the short story form, its unique demands, and its potency in this video, presented by Open Road Integrated Media. Authors on Writing Short Stories](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r5DjuuNGXbQ/mqdefault.jpg)








