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When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

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Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

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