I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.