I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.