The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.