The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

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

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

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

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.