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

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

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

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

The writer works in a lonely way.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

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