I Don't Have Time To Read Nonfiction.

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham In About 5th Grade. Didn't Understand The Plots, But Loved The Descriptions.

Other People Get Into Occupations By Accident Or Design; But Writers Are Born. I Could Work At Selling Motels, Or Slopping Hogs, For Fifty Years, But If Someone Asked My Occupation, I'd Say Writer, Even If I'd Never Sold A Word. Writers Write. Other People Talk.

Curt Flood, Of Course, Was In A Class By Himself, A True Hero.

In The 70s And 80s, I Made A Good Living. Have Managed My Funds Carefully, Will Never Have To Go Out And Cadge Quarters From The Tourists.

If You Build It, He Will Come.