A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
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.
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.