People Make A Grievous Error

If You Want To Study Writing, Read Dickens

My Second Book, Follow Me Down Had Some Success, Got Good Critical Notices, Went Into A Second Printing And Things Like That, But Shiloh Was By Far The Most Successful Of Those First Five Novels.

I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of Anything.

I Never Cared What Kind Of Grade I Got.

I Used To Write Sonnets And Various Things, And Moved From There Into Writing Prose, Which, Incidentally, Is A Lot More Interesting Than Poetry, Including The Rhythms Of Prose.