A short story is simplification to the highest degree

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.