At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody