Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
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.