A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

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

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

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

Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.