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

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

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

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

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.