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If You're Young Enough, Any Kind Of Writing You Do For A Short Period Of Time Is A Marvelous Apprenticeship.

I've Gone On The Wagon, But My Body Doesn't Believe It.

Writing Is Like A Contact Sport, Like Football. Why Do Kids Play Football? They Can Get Hurt On Any Play, Can't They? Yet They Can't Wait Until Saturday Comes Around So They Can Play On The High School Team, Or The College Team, And Get Smashed Around. Writing Is Like That. You Can Get Hurt, But You Enjoy It!

My Views Naturally Have Mellowed. Most Of The Critics Have Been More Or Less Nice To Me

No Writer Need Feel Sorry For Himself If He Writes And Enjoys It, Even If He Doesn't Get Paid.