I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
[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.
Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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.