Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

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

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The writer works in a lonely way.