A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal