The Desire To Write A Novel Is

As Soon As You Bring Up Money, I Notice, Conversation Gets Sociological, Then Political, Then Moral.

Vets Do What Doctors Used To - Diagnose The Injury Or The Condition, Patch It Up As Best They Can And Remind You That These Things Happen And That In Life We Are Also In The Midst Of Death.

There Are Five Things That Societies Do: They Reproduce; They Produce Food; They Organize Themselves In Terms Of Law; They Organize Themselves In Terms Of Belief; And They Make Art. Four Of Them Are About Conformity, And In These, Everything Would Go More Smoothly If People Just Would Shut Up And Do What They're Told. But In Art It Doesn't Work That Way.

The Fact Is That The Same Sequence Of Days Can Arrange Themselves Into A Number Of Different Stories.

Trollope Wrote So Many Novels And Other Works That They Tend To Crowd Each Other Out.