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

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

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

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

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

The parking spaces outweigh the height.