I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

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

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

The writer works in a lonely way.