If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

Not dreams but night changes, not destiny but path changes, always keep your hopes alive, luck may or may not change, but time definitely chages.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.