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

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.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

No one likes my books except the public.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

If the public likes you, you're good.