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

The 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.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

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

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