If I need something, I'll invent it.
No one likes my books except the public.
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
If the public likes you, you're good.
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.