I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

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

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer