Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

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

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.