Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Writers speak stench.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Anyone familiar with my work knows I'm no sappy sentimentalist.
I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest champions were Sir Walter Scott and the Prince Regent.
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
