Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 12, 1931
When I was your age, television was called books..
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death..
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all..
One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to thi….
He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hat….
Who says life is fair, where is that written?.
I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it..
"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.".
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops..
It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird..
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it..
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high..
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches..
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess….
Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something..
I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess..
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite.
I write out of revenge..
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics..
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something..