Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

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

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

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