1946, If My Memory Is

America Has Been Erased Like A Blackboard, Only To Be Rebuilt And Then Erased Again. But Baseball Has Marked Time While America Has Rolled By Like A Procession Of Steamrollers.

I Have No Interest In Non-fiction. I Don't Read It And Don't Watch It And Don't Write It, Other Than A Little Journalistic Column.

The Great Gatsby, The Finest Novel Ever Written.

I Think It Is Worse [in 2015] For A Mid-list Author Such As Myself. You Either Have To Sell Like Stephen King Or Go With The Small Presses Where There Is No Money. I Was Lucky To Have Been In The Right Place And Time For Many Years.

Other People Get Into Occupations By Accident Or Design; But Writers Are Born. I Could Work At Selling Motels, Or Slopping Hogs, For Fifty Years, But If Someone Asked My Occupation, I'd Say Writer, Even If I'd Never Sold A Word. Writers Write. Other People Talk.