The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.