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.
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
Inspiration is an empty bank account.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.