There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

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

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

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