I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?