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

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

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

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

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

The writer works in a lonely way.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.