I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.”
“I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.”