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

The writer works in a lonely way.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

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

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

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