I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
