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

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

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.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

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

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.