Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."

[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]

Typically we don't see many applicants from the coast, but it has been building since Katrina.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs

As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.

They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past