I'm Not As Hopeful As

In Europe, A Writer Is Supposed To Improve Up Until He's About 75

I Look At Everything. God Gave Me Eyes And I Look At Women And Men And Subway Excavations And Moving Pictures And The Little Flowers Of The Field. I Casually Inspect The Universe.

My Attitudes Have Changed, But Somebody Would Have To Read All My Books To Find Out How They Have

I Never Drink While I'm Working, But After A Few Glasses I Get Ideas That Would Never Have Occurred To Me Dead Sober.

Special-interest Magazines Are Dangerous Places For Writers To Start Out In Because The Writing Quickly Falls Into A Routine And People Are Likely To Find Themselves Artistically Exhausted When They Want To Work On Something Of Their Own