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

- Henry Seidel Canby

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…

- Henry Seidel Canby

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

- Henry Seidel Canby

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

- Henry Seidel Canby

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…

- Henry Seidel Canby

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. …

- Henry Seidel Canby

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…

- Henry Seidel Canby

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

- Henry Seidel Canby

Live deep instead of fast.

- Henry Seidel Canby