Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 4, 1937 Death: September 19, 2015
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on..
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read..
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom..
I try not to bore my readers..
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think….
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk..
My biggest critics have never read me..
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either..
You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old..
I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion….
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's in….
If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag..
If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book,….
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board..
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something ….
There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number on….
Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, ….
I love people-watching at the clubs in Los Angeles, where girls make fools of themselves and guys pay thousands of dollars for a couple of bottles of….
I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing..
I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Ja….