Writing For Me, Even What You Call

A Good Smoker, Like A Good Lover, Always Takes His Time With A Cigar.

That Is What I Define As A Novel: Something That Has A Beginning, A Middle And An End, With Characters And A Plot That Sustain Interest From The First Sentence To The Last. But That Is Not What I Do At All.

Writers Rush In Where Publishers Fear To Tread And Where Translators Fear To Tread

Many Of My Books Have Begun With The Title, Because Naming A Work Already In Progress Makes No Sense To Me.

There Were Influences In My Life That Were More Important Than Journalism, Such As Comic Strips And Radio.