In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

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

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

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

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