I was the first one probably in writing to use a nickname, Mickey, and it stuck.

I knew a couple of things... during the war years they came out with reprints of all the Dumas novels, Moby Dick, for the servicement, and I saw this and belie…

I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just exploded! Suddenly, in the guise of Louis, a fantasy figure…

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....