Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.