I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

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 Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

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

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

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.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.