The Present Can Try To Bury The

Driving A Car, You Are In Danger Of Killing; Walking Or Standing, Of Being Killed.

Love Of Truth, Ordinary Common Truth Recognizable To Everyone, Is The Ruling Passion Of The Novel.

The Suspense In A Novel Is Not Only In The Reader, But In The Novelist Himself, Who Is Intensely Curious Too About What Will Happen To The Hero.

I Once Started A Detective Story To Make Money—but I Couldn't Get The Murder To Take Place! At The End Of Three Chapters I Was Still Describing The Characters And The Milieu, So I Thought, This Is Not Going To Work. No Corpse!

The Present Can Try To Bury The Past, An Operation That Is Most Atrocious When It Is Most Successful.