Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you’re sitting down.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.