I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

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

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

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

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

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.