Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.