Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

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!

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

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

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

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

The writer works in a lonely way.