If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke po…

There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.

We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas …