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.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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