Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

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.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.