If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

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

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