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

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 write…

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The las…

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

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of …

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give …

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.