My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

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

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.