Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
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.