Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.