[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.