I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

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

The writer works in a lonely way.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

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

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