Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

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

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.