And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.