After my best side again, aren't you? |
All Our Yesterdays was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. |
As I say, I'm not sure I'd have undertaken it... Oh, yeah, I would. They were offering me a hell of a lot of money. |
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around. |
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. |
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. |
He is a very dangerous individual and we are very glad to have him back in custody. |
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. |
I don't go to the movies, and I never watch television except ballgames and Law & Order. I can talk along with the reruns now. My lips move with Mike Logan's. |
I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained. |
I don't want to work hard on a book that is not going to be published in my lifetime. I want the money now! And, of course, I want to see the book published. |
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. Even to girls, I think. |
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 writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink. |
I have known an interesting, sexy, independent woman for some 50 years and have had many opportunities to observe her in many different situations. And one of the many things I have learned during the course of our relationship is that ultimately the things that separate women from men are less significant than the things that we have in common with each other. |
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. |