I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

