In Spite Of All Temptations

Put Your Backbone Where Your Wishbone Is.

Is It Not Love That Knows How To Make Smooth Things Rough And Rough Things Smooth?

Those Books Of Mine That Are Remunerative - I'm Not Talking About Poetry Here - Take Years To Write, And I Am Never Sure They'll Be Successful. So Writing Is A Risk In More Senses Than One.

I Want My Books To Sell, To Be Read. I'm Not Interested In Being Obscure.

And The Process Of Reading Is Such A Private One. I Once Came Into A Room Where A Friend Of Mine Was Reading One Of My Books, And He Clicked His Tongue Impatiently And Shooed Me Off.