Using Adverbs Is A Mortal Sin.

I Once Saw Dizzy Gillespie At A Live Show, And It Made Me Want To Go Home Immediately And Start Writing.

I Get Letters. I Get Several A Week, I Think. A Lot Of People Want A Picture, A Lot Of People Just Want An Autograph.

I Won't Read A Book That Starts With A Description Of The Weather. I Don't Read Books Over 300 Pages, Though I'll Make An Exception For Don Delillo.

I'm Very Much Aware In The Writing Of Dialogue, Or Even In The Narrative Too, Of A Rhythm. There Has To Be A Rhythm With It … Interviewers Have Said, You Like Jazz, Don’t You? Because We Can Hear It In Your Writing. And I Thought That Was A Compliment.

Never Use A Verb Other Than "said" To Carry Dialogue... I Once Noticed Mary Mccarthy Ending A Line Of Dialogue With "she Asseverated" And Had To Stop Reading And Go To The Dictionary.