Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
No one likes my books except the public.
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
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.