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

The writer works in a lonely way.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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

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

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various