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

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

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

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.