I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
“Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.”
“My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.”