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

The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

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.