The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
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.
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.
I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.