I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.