The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.