Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

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

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.