Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.