Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all..

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I ….

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

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough..

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

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody..

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one..

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwin….

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

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..

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….

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

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

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it..

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

The writer works in a lonely way..