The Wall Street Journal is running a wonderful interview with Cormac McCarthy about the upcoming film adaptation of his novel The Road. Best line in the interview:
WSJ: How does that ticking clock affect your work? Does it make you want to write more shorter pieces, or to cap things with a large, all-encompassing work?
CM: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.