"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."

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"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."

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"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."

History

"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."

History

"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."

Media

"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."

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"If the public likes you, you're good."

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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

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"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."

"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."

"In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country."

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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."

"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."

"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."

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"If the public likes you, you're good."

"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."