I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

If the public likes you, you're good.

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

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

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

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.