There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

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.