If You Write Beautifully, You Write Beautifully,

Hollywood's A Great Place To Live... If You're A Grapefruit.

Writers Vary Tremendously. Was It Tom Wolfe Who Stood Up Or Was It [ernest] Hemingway Who Had To Stand Up? I Don't Know.

All The Dachaus Must Remain Standing. The Dachaus, The Belsens, The Buchenwalds, The Auschwitzes - All Of Them. They Must Remain Standing Because They Are A Monument To A Moment In Time When Some Men Decided To Turn The Earth Into A Graveyard. Into It They Shoveled All Of Their Reason, Their Logic, Their Knowledge,,then We Become The Gravediggers.

Writers, Like Most Human Beings, Are Adaptable Creatures. They Can Learn To Accept Subordination Without Growing Fond Of It. No Writer Can Forever Stand In The Wings And Watch Other People Take The Curtain Calls While His Own Contributions Get Lost In The Shuffle.

I Remember The First Sale I Made Was A Hundred And Fifty Dollars For A Radio Script, And, As Poor As I Was, I Didn't Cash The Check For Three Months. I Kept Showing It To People.