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

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

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

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75