I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?