I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

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

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

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

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

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

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.