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.

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.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

No one likes my books except the public.

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.