As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.