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

No one likes my books except the public.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.