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  • The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

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

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

  • Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

    "The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers" by V. S. Pritchett, (p. 178), 1979.
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