The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

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

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

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

The writer works in a lonely way.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

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