Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.