My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
He bats like a lightning rod.
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.