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

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

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

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

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.