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 have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.