Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that will be in print for a long time. He'll be sadly missed as a teacher and a friend by so many.

I certainly love writing books. I've always written short stories and novels, because in prose, you get all the control. You don't have to take it to a theater and see it changed to get it produced.

I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really.

He cared that people understood American history in their homes. His love for America came through in everything that he wrote.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.