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 am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

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

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.