The Romantic Idea Is That Everybody Around

Horror Would Not Annoy A Soldier Any More Than The Sight Of A Hammer Annoys A Carpenter. It Is Sentimental To Pretend That Horror Is Not The Tool Of The Soldier, Just As The Hammer Is The Tool Of The Carpenter. We Live Off Death And The Threat Of Death And We Must Take It Calmly And Use It Well.... Eventually I Came To Enjoy Killing, As A Pianist Enjoys The Czerny Which Keeps His Fingers Limber For The Beethoven.

I Haven't Stuck To Any Formula. Most Great Writers Stick To The Same Style, But I Wanted To Be More Various

Posterity Makes The Judgments. There Are Going To Be A Lot Of Surprises In Store For Everybody.

Special-interest Magazines Are Dangerous Places For Writers To Start Out In Because The Writing Quickly Falls Into A Routine And People Are Likely To Find Themselves Artistically Exhausted When They Want To Work On Something Of Their Own

Isaac Singer Was Born In Poland And Doesn't Write In English. Still, He's An American.