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

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

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