At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
The writer works in a lonely way.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.