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

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

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

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

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

The writer works in a lonely way.