Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person wil...

The most important thing is you can’t write what you wouldn’t read for pleasure. It’s a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can wri...

I strongly believe that writing is an act of courage. It’s almost an act of physical courage. You get up and you have this great idea. May...

Completing a book, it’s a little like having a baby. There’s a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that ...

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because th...

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be awar...

In Hollywood, you’re dealing with a power structure where the writer is really at the bottom of the totem pole. Actually, I think that the...

Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the character can disco...

My feeling is that there's no such thing as nonfiction. Everything is fiction, because in the moment someone tries to relate an experi...

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manag...

      Well, there are three days left on my newspaper subscription. I didn't bother renewing it. $350.00 for a year. I hardly read it...

Muggy, muggy, muggy. That's the only way to describe the weather. It's 10 AM and I have to go for my walk in a little while. I...

Warm today. 25C/77F. I won't be jumping the gun and put away the snow shovel. It's only March. Sat it's supposed to be 6C/43F. ...

I awoke up to the sound of a big truck outside. Oh, oh. Garbage man. Wine and turkey doesn't seem to help a flagging memory. My wife had...