And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well

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

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

I had been writing professionally since 1988

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