At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

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

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.

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

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.