But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

I had been writing professionally since 1988

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.