I am right now in the middle of a difficult writing project. And it's just as difficult now as when I started. But when I get up in the morning I am really qualified to say, 'Well, Jim, it isn't going too well, but there is nobody on the block who is better able to wrestle with it than you are, so let's get on with it.'

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and te…

I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost …

Gore Vidal, who wrote Williwaw at only nineteen, was another whose early book could well have been his last, but instead he wrote a series of books that varied…

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important…

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life ...

'Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!'