I Was Once Asked If I'd Like

The Really Great Writers Are People Like Emily Brontë Who Sit In A Room And Write Out Of Their Limited Experience And Unlimited Imagination.

Organizations Like The Church Or General Motors Promote A Man Up And Up Until He Reaches A Spot Which He Is Obviously Incapable Of Filling, And There They Lay Him To Rest.

The Rules Seem To Be These: If You Have Written A Successful Novel, Everyone Invites You To Write Short Stories. If You Have Written Some Good Short Stories, Everyone Wants You To Write A Novel. But Nobody Wants Anything Until You Have Already Proved Yourself By Being Published Somewhere Else.

I Have Only One Bit Of Advice To Beginning Writers: Be Sure Your Novel Is Read By Rodgers And Hammerstein.

I Am A Humanist Because I Think Humanity Can, With Constant Moral Guidance, Create Reasonably Decent Societies. I Think That Young People Who Want To Understand The World Can Profit From The Works Of Plato And Socrates, The Behaviour Of The Three Thomases, Aquinas, More And Jefferson - The Austere Analyses Of Immanuel Kant And The Political Leadership Of Abraham Lincoln And Franklin Roosevelt.