We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.