A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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.
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.