I Make No Conscious Effort To Be

Time Is The Only Critic.

Writing A Novel Is Like Working On Foreign Policy. There Are Problems To Be Solved. It's Not All Inspirational.

A Lot Of Novelists Start Late-conrad, Pirandello, Even Mark Twain. When You're Young, Chess Is All Right, And Music And Poetry. But Novel-writing Is Something Else. It Has To Be Learned, But It Can't Be Taught. This Bunkum And Stinkum Of College Creative Writing Courses! The Academics Don't Know That The Only Thing You Can Do For Someone Who Wants To Write Is To Buy Him A Typewriter.

That's All It Takes, One Drop Of Fear To Curdle Love Into Hate.

A Gun Is Like Breath To A Drowning Man--it Has To Be Drawn In Haste.