I'm Not As Hopeful As I Was

I Haven't Stuck To Any Formula. Most Great Writers Stick To The Same Style, But I Wanted To Be More Various

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

My Favorite Short-story Writer Is John Cheever

I'm Not As Hopeful As I Was When I Was Young

Curiously, The United States Is Full Of Writers Who Have One Big Work In Their Life And That's All.