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.

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.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

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

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.