The Good Of A Book Lies In

When One Starts Writing A Book, Especially A Novel, Even The Humblest Person In The World Hopes To Become Homer.

For Such Is The Fate Of Parody: It Must Never Fear Exaggerating. If It Strikes Home, It Will Only Prefigure Something That Others Will Then Do Without A Smile--and Without A Blush--in Steadfast Virile Seriousness.

I Am A Professor Who Writes Novels On Sundays

Absence Is To Love As Wind Is To Fire: It Extinguishes The Little Flame, It Fans The Big.

An Idea You Have Might Not Be Original. But By Creating A Novel Out Of That Idea You Can Make It Original.