In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75