The World Motivation
It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
“It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.”
— Howard Fast · Books
It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
I've been told no one makes it in music. I've been told comic books are a stupid idea. I take great pleasure in proving people wrong.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
Study nature, not books.