Every First Draft Is Perfect,

I Was Depressed, But That Was A Side Issue. This Was More Like Closing Up Shop, Or, Say, Having A Big Garage Sale, Where You Look At Everything You've Bought In Your Life, And You Remember How Much It Meant To You, And Now You Just Tag It For A Quarter And Watch 'em Carry It Off, And You Don't Care. That's More Like How It Was.

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

In Every Society, The Artists Will Be The Ones Who Set Themselves Up As Contrary To Whatever The Society Expects.

If To Live Is To Progress, If You Are Lucky, From Foolishness To Wisdom, Then To Write Novels Is To Broadcast The Various Stages Of Your Foolishness.

Writing Novels Is An Essentially Amateur Activity.