Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.