I Will Say I Am The Sum

My Grief Is That The Publishing World, The Book Writing World Is An Extraordinary Shoddy, Dirty, Dingy World.

I Wish My Prose To Be Transparent—i Don't Want The Reader To Stumble Over Me; I Want Him To Look Through What I'm Saying To What I'm Describing. I Don't Want Him Ever To Say, Oh, Goodness, How Nicely Written This Is. That Would Be A Failure.

That Element Of Surprise Is What I Look For When I Am Writing. It Is My Way Of Judging What I Am Doing - Which Is Never An Easy Thing To Do.

Everybody Is Interesting For An Hour, But Few People Can Last More Than Two.

One Must Always Try To See The Truth Of A Situation - It Makes Things Universal.