It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

There's no sauce for play like work.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.