Dialogue Should Show The Relationships Among People.

What Is A Novel? I Say: An Invented Story. At The Same Time A Story Which, Though Invented Has The Power To Ring True. True To What? True To Life As The Reader Knows Life To Be Or, It May Be, Feels Life To Be. And I Mean The Adult, The Grown-up Reader. Such A Reader Has Outgrown Fairy Tales, And We Do Not Want The Fantastic And The Impossible. So I Say To You That A Novel Must Stand Up To The Adult Tests Of Reality.

Jealousy Is No More Than Feeling Alone Against Smiling Enemies.

The Novelist's--any Writer's--object Is To Whittle Down His Meaning To The Exactest And Finest Possible Point. What, Of Course, Isfatal Is When He Does Not Know What He Does Mean: He Has No Point To Sharpen.

But Surely Love Wouldn't Get So Much Talked About If There Were Not Something In It?

Everything Is Very Quiet, The Streets Are Never Crowded, And The People One Dislikes Are Out Of Town.