A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
The writer works in a lonely way.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
