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.

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.

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.