Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.