Live deep instead of fast..

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant..

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young..

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and super….

The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story... B….

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again..

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, imp….

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. ….

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all..