There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.