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.

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

No one likes my books except the public.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

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.

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