Fiedler on the Roof.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.