It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
V. S. PritchettThe Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PritchettThe novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
V. S. Pritchett