Everything in a story should be credible.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.