In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

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

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

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.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

The writer works in a lonely way.