Quotes on Good Authors

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.