Planning To Write Is Not Writing.

All Over The World Today, Not Just In The Totalitarian Countries, Assiduous Functionaries In Ministries Of Truth Are Clubbing History Dumb And Rendering Language Insensible.

Movies Are Too Literal.

Writing A Novel Is Like Driving A Car At Night. Sometimes You Run Over A Drunk Who's Lain Down And Fallen Asleep On The Warm Pavement. I Mean, Do You Keep Going, Or What?

The Shadow Had No Imagination. He Neither Looked At Naked Women Nor Thought Of Ridding The World Of Dictators Like Hitler Or Mussolini.

Facts Are The Images Of History, Just As Images Are The Facts Of Fiction.