This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think..

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves..

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good..

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition..

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block..

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I sai….

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. E….

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around..

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make ….

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself..

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the….

Yeah. Floyd is his batman..

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted th….

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know..

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently int….

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a wri….

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This ….

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences..