Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.