Occupation: Author Birth: October 31, 1932
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility..
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow m….
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened..
Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was t….
Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path..
...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are wo….
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child..
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations..
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to ….
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul..
The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the ….
What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce..
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim ….
a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining..
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits..
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing..