US "novelist, journalist".
"He won a 1980 Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song" and wrote "The Naked and the Dead," 1948."
When considering regulations, half of what is published is probably 50 % incorrect. The rest is 75 % wrong."
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain."
