I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

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

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.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

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

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

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

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

The path to tranquility gets through the storms!

I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

I love your name. I love the sound of it

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.