You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: 1908 Death: 1980 |
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.