"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."
"I think I became a biographer because I'm obsessively fascinated by people and how they work."
"All literary men are Red Sox fans — to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
"What I most often wind up exploring is the relationship between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it to be."
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
