There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.