If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates who were responsible for everything. They could take whatever risks they wanted, could essentially publish what they liked according to their taste. Publishers today are working for big corporations. They have different pressures. I don't think they can make decisions quite as independently as they used to be able to. They have more corporate and financial responsibilities weighing on them. They're not free to go broke or go to jail.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.