Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.