If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.