There Are Too Many Books I Haven’t

Horror Would Not Annoy A Soldier Any More Than The Sight Of A Hammer Annoys A Carpenter. It Is Sentimental To Pretend That Horror Is Not The Tool Of The Soldier, Just As The Hammer Is The Tool Of The Carpenter. We Live Off Death And The Threat Of Death And We Must Take It Calmly And Use It Well.... Eventually I Came To Enjoy Killing, As A Pianist Enjoys The Czerny Which Keeps His Fingers Limber For The Beethoven.

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

All Writers Are The Same - They Forget A Thousand Good Reviews And Remember One Bad One.

My Favorite Short-story Writer Is John Cheever

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