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

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

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

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

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