“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.”
“Short cuts make long delays.”
“If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?”
“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.”
“All short stories long.”