I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.