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

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

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

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

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form