If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

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