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.

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

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.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

The writer works in a lonely way.

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