I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
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
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
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?
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
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.
