In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

The writer works in a lonely way.

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

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

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

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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