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My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.