I hereby resign from Prudential Insurance Company of America. As I look back over my years with the company, I note there have been three of them. |
I rarely write Spenser: For Hire. The ABC series is based on characters created by me, and I serve on the program as a consultant. As we all know, a consultant's first responsibility is to deposit the check every week. After that, I read each script and make suggestions. |
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! |
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women. |
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it. |
I trusted them to find me a mortgage at a good rate. He told me that was the best rate. I took his word for it. But now I know I could have done better than that. |
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 interesting by his or herself. |
I was someplace the other day. Too modest. I was winning the prestigious Hale Award, which is given annually in Newport, New Hampshire for anyone who'll go up and accept it. I don't get that many awards, friends. So it was a three-hour drive? |
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. |
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. |
It creates a little buzz in the marketplace. It helps keep the word out there among enthusiasts. |
It was like a member of the family. We loved the dog. There is nothing wrong on our part. |
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. |
It's an investment in the community in terms of our tax base and in good-paying jobs for our citizens, |
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 amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. |