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

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

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

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

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.