The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.