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.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.