Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
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