People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

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

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.