In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

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

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober..

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part o….

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship..

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..