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

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own

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

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written