Nuts Don’t Come In Bunches. Only Grapes

With Most Of My Books, I'll Actually Go Out And Look At The Setting. If You Describe Things Carefully, It Kind Of Makes The Scene Pop.

Well, I Am Becoming Doddering And Old But I Have - I'm Writing Two Books A Year Now. It's Like 220,000 Words Or Something Like Finished, And, Honest To God, I Can't Do That. I Really Do Need The Help Of, You Know, Other People Working With Me.

Most People Who Are Trying To Write Kind Of Sit In Their Basements And Pull It Out Of Their Imaginations.

You Have The Feeling That If You Get A Pulitzer, You're Somehow Set For Life.

When You're Building A Character, Or At Least When I'm Building A Character, You Start Saying, 'how Am I Going To Make People Like Him?'