We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

If you don't get noticed you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed but the art is in getting noticed naturally without screaming or without tricks.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.