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

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.

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.