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

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'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

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