You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.