In A Novel, It's Hard To Keep

You Must Avoid Giving Hostages To Fortune, Like Getting An Expensive Wife, An Expensive House, And A Style Of Living That Never Lets You Aford The Time To Take The Chance To Write What You Wish.

The Last Paragraph In Which You Tell What The Story Is About Is Almost Always Best Left Out.

Ernest Hemingway Did A Great Deal Toward Making The Writer An Acceptable Public Figure; Obviously, He Was No Sissy.

My Favorite Short-story Writer Is John Cheever

The Great Writers Just Kept Bringing Them Out. They Didn't Care If They Repeated Themselves.