In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

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

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

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

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

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

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

Be positive about the future. The road ahead will be worth it!

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

I like being misunderstood.

The challenge of life is to learn how to love

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.