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Yes, Writing A Novel, My Boy, Is Like Driving Pigs To Market - You Have One Of Them Making A Bolt Down The Wrong Lane; Another Won't Get Over The Right Stile.

[a Writer] Should Try Not To Be Too Far, Personally, Below The Level Of His Work.

What Is A Novel? I Say: An Invented Story. At The Same Time A Story Which, Though Invented Has The Power To Ring True. True To What? True To Life As The Reader Knows Life To Be Or, It May Be, Feels Life To Be. And I Mean The Adult, The Grown-up Reader. Such A Reader Has Outgrown Fairy Tales, And We Do Not Want The Fantastic And The Impossible. So I Say To You That A Novel Must Stand Up To The Adult Tests Of Reality.

We Desert Those Who Desert Us; We Cannot Afford To Suffer; We Must Live How We Can.

Wariness Had Driven Away Poetry; From Hesitating To Feel Came The Moment When You No Longer Could.