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

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

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.

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

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

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

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.