Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.