I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
From Irwin Shaw
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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