You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

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

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

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.