Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.