Arthur Miller in het voorwoord tot zijn verhalenbundel Presence:xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

What I have found,though, is that from time to time there is an urge not to speed up and condense events and character development, which is what one does in a play, but to hold them frozen and to see things isolated in stillness, which I think is the great strength of a good short story.

(…), the dialogue in a story needs to sacrifice its sound in order to be convincing to the eye.