Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.