The writer works in a lonely way.

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

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

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.