"The sharp-tongued Kitty O’Hara used to say that being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning—a really de…"

"It's just something that only luck or an accident can mend," said the nerve specialist. "Time may do it but I doubt i…"

"It marked an epoch in Chet's life-that letter. It reached out across the Atlantic Ocean from the Chester Ball of his …"

"The persecution, torture, and death of six million European Jews had actually brought little or no protest from a Chr…"

"All the way from Maugham and de Maupassant and Chekhov to Ring Lardner the short story has served to portray the char…"

"The writer given to rereading his or her past work is a writer in danger. Once you begin to mumble among your souveni…"

"During World War I and World War II, I wrote few short stories. I wrote, in fact, little of anything other than propa…"

"All my writing life I have written to please first myself. Never, except wartime, have I written to order on a theme …"

"It is difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with…"

"It is a pattern of self-immolation familiar to any writer worth reading. The writer does not even remotely look upon …"