I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

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.

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

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

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

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!