"My friends Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, and Theodore Sturgeon all taught me by example—as I watched them exercising different sets of mental muscles switching from one form to another as required by the story or the marketplace—that if I hoped to earn a living and have writing as a career like theirs, I would need to learn to write effective film scripts as well as stories and articles. This retrospective collection contains examples of all three types of writing, selected from the work of a lifetime." —George Clayton Johnson