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

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

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

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

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

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

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