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It's those damn critics again.
The writer works in a lonely way.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices