I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
“It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”
“Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.”