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

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.