After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

Skip the boring parts.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.