For A Good Man Fame

A Ruling Passion Gives To A Shelf Of Novels The Unity Of A System.

Thrillers Are Like Life, More Like Life Than You Are.

For An Artist To Think In Terms Of Success Is Like A Priest Trying To Think In Terms Of Success.

...every Monologue Sooner Or Later Becomes A Discussion.

With A Novel, Which Takes Perhaps Years To Write, The Author Is Not The Same Man He Was At The End Of The Book As He Was At The Beginning. It Is Not Only That His Characters Have Developed-he Has Developed With Them, And This Nearly Always Gives A Sense Of Roughness To The Work: A Novel Can Seldom Have The Sense Of Perfection Which You Find In Chekhov's Story, The Lady With The Dog.