The Paris Review recently posted its entire archive of author interviews online. Here's the introduction to George Plimpton's interview of Ernest Hemingway, from the Spring 1958 issue:
HEMINGWAY
You go to the races?
INTERVIEWER
Yes, occasionally.
HEMINGWAY
Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.
More of that interview here, and the whole archive here.