Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

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

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have