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

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

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.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

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

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.