They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down