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

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

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.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

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.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.